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10-31-2008, 02:41 AM
Military Investigates Amnesia Beams
http://blog.wired.com/defense/images/2008/10/29/neuralizer_2.jpg
A team of scientists from the United States and China announced last week that, for the first time, they had found a means of selectively and safely erasing memories in mice, using the signaling molecule αCaMKII. It's a big step forward, and one that will be of considerable interest to the military, which has devoted efforts to memory manipulation as a means of treating post-traumatic stress disorder. But some military research has moved in another direction entirely.
In the 1980s, researchers found that even low-level exposure to a beam of electrons caused rats to forget what had just happened to them (an effect known as retrograde amnesia — the other version, anteretrograde amnesia, is when you can't form new memories). The same effect was also achieved with X-rays. The time factor was not large — it only caused memory loss about the previous four seconds — but the effect was intriguing.
read full story here--> http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/10/air-forces-amne.html
also check out--> Memories Selectively, Safely Erased In Mice
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081022135801.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/images/2008/10/081022135801.jpg
http://blog.wired.com/defense/images/2008/10/29/neuralizer_2.jpg
A team of scientists from the United States and China announced last week that, for the first time, they had found a means of selectively and safely erasing memories in mice, using the signaling molecule αCaMKII. It's a big step forward, and one that will be of considerable interest to the military, which has devoted efforts to memory manipulation as a means of treating post-traumatic stress disorder. But some military research has moved in another direction entirely.
In the 1980s, researchers found that even low-level exposure to a beam of electrons caused rats to forget what had just happened to them (an effect known as retrograde amnesia — the other version, anteretrograde amnesia, is when you can't form new memories). The same effect was also achieved with X-rays. The time factor was not large — it only caused memory loss about the previous four seconds — but the effect was intriguing.
read full story here--> http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/10/air-forces-amne.html
also check out--> Memories Selectively, Safely Erased In Mice
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081022135801.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/images/2008/10/081022135801.jpg