Stress can enhance ordinary, unrelated memories

Tuesday, December 21, 2010 - 18:10 in Psychology & Sociology

Stress can enhance ordinary, unrelated memories, a team of neuroscientists has found in a study of laboratory rats. Their results, which appear in the journal PLoS Biology, may bolster our understanding of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and could offer a pathway for addressing PTSD and related afflictions.

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