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We Just Got Closer to Cracking Memory Deletion in the Brain

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New findings could open the door to a distant future where we purge traumatic memories out of the brain.

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Don Arnold, University of Southern California

Despite all the neuroscience advances we’ve made in the last century, our understanding of how memories are made in the brain is still a flummoxing mystery.

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