Noninvasive technique blocks a conditioned fear in humans

Thursday, December 10, 2009 - 06:07 in Psychology & Sociology

Scientists have for the first time selectively blocked a conditioned fear memory in humans with a behavioural manipulation. Participants remained free of the fear memory for at least a year. The research builds on emerging evidence from animal studies that reactivating an emotional memory opens a 6-hour window of opportunity in which a training procedure can alter it...

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