RESEARCH: Thanks to science, you can soon wipe out your worst memories!

Imagine being able to erase your most traumatic memories. Scientists have discovered a way to change how our brains perceive memories, which could leave bad flashbacks truly in the past.

Many of us assume that memory is like a faithful recording of our lives stored in our brains, persistent and unchanging.

Shockingly, that’s not the case. Researchers have discovered that memory is changeable. The act of recalling something alters it.

Forming memories actually causes a physical change in the brain — a seismic discovery made by Nobel Prize-winning ­neuro-scientist Eric Kandel of Columbia University.

When you create a memory, new synaptic connections grow between neurons in the brain. But each time you call up a memory, it must then be resaved like a file on your computer — and it gets modified in the process.

If this stands, it could provide an avenue for people to completely forget bad past experiences and otherwise which in itself is not a bad thing.


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