Alcohol prevents ability to extinguish fearful memories in mice
Tuesday, January 10, 2017 - 12:01
in Psychology & Sociology
If the goal is to ease or extinguish fearful emotional memories like those associated with post-traumatic stress disorder, alcohol may make things worse, not better, experiments in mice suggest that. Results of their study demonstrate, they say, that alcohol strengthens emotional memories associated with fearful experiences and prevents mice from pushing aside their fears.