Bad Memories Can Be Removed From the Brain: New Study?

One has to travel with the memories whether they are good or bad. These memories leave a long-standing impact on one. People developing issues like depression and other issues are big examples of this. Brain plays a key role as all the memories and incidents are stored there.

American Neurotechnology company Neuralink is on the path of establishing a link between human brains and systems. The company said it had implanted chips in two brains and two implants are successful. Amid this, the researchers came up with a sensation claim saying that bad memories can be wiped off.

Researchers from Cornell University in the United States had a breakthrough in clearing the mystery behind the brain, saving the memories of activities one does daily. As this is a daily process no one knows how the brain does this throughout life.

Now the researchers have an answer to this. The researchers say that during sleep the brain gets into reset mode which silences particular neurons in the hippocampus. As these neurons reset they get to work again and new information is stored without a question of overloading.

The hippocampus plays a crucial role in learning new things and creating memories. During sleep memory consolidation happens where specific neurons get reset.

The hippocampus and cortex are crucial in safeguarding memories. The hippocampus is divided into three types CA1, CA2, and CA3. While CA1 and CA3 encode memories related to time and space, CA2 takes care of the required resetting.

The researchers say that the study would come in handy in wiping out the bad and unwanted memories from the brain. For better brain health bad memories can be removed and the current study would help them in the same path.