New Understanding Of How We Remember Traumatic Events

Article 1 (New Understanding Of How We Remember Traumatic Events)
This article was by a Neuroscientists that preformed tis experiment at The University of Queensland he has discovered a new way to explain how emotional events can sometimes lead to disturbing long term memories. Dr. Louise Faber and some of her collages have demonstrated that people do not want to remember traumatic events with such detail so they have said that the formation of the emotional memories occur in the presence of a hormone that is known as the stress hormone. Stress hormones rise in the body during any neuroendocrine reaction such as surgery and they remain high to as long as 72 hours after which all these hormones return back to their normal level, the last being cortisol. It makes your heart beat faster. This treatment can now be used for people with anxiety disorders and post traumatic stress disorder. In real life we could use this treatment is we have had a emotions that we want to erase it from our long term memory, or if you had a car accident the stress hormone would be affected.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081028103111.htm