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by Kenneth Lee

RESEARCH ROUND-UP

Mimicking memory repression

Email: Kenneth Lee - kenlee_fr@yahoo.fr
News from The Scientist 2001, 2(1):20010320-03

Published

20 March 2001

Whether or not we can choose to lose memories has been a controversial question since Freud claimed that we can repress unwanted memories by pushing them into the unconscious. Repression is often associated with post-traumatic stress, making it difficult to study in the laboratory because of ethical and practical reasons. In the 15 March Nature, Michael Anderson and Collin Green of the University of Oregon, report a method for mimicking memory repression in the laboratory (Nature 2001, 410:366-369).

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