Mental blocks

• Autores: Helen Philips
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3111, 2017, págs. 36-39
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Phillips discusses ways to rebuild memories to remove debilitating scars of past traumas. Memories are physically imprinted on people's brain. If they remember any of this article in a few days' time, it's down to changes in how their brain is wired. Over a number of hours or a night's sleep, their initial memory is consolidated for long-term storage by a suite of genes, which switch on to make the proteins that rework and reinforce neural connections. Only when this process is complete does a memory become permanent, like a book shelved in a vast library.