Military Investigates Amnesia Beams

[MAP]

Military Investigates Amnesia Beams


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/2008/1...rces-amne.html


also check out--> Memories Selectively, Safely Erased In Mice
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...1022135801.htm

Hi,

now what was it - can't remember ... oh well.

[MAP]

no idea...... who are you??
where am I?

[Waterman]

Great that's all I need. I can't remember things now.

.............What was this thread about?

Glad to see your still with us Waterman. I was worried there for a minute.