Oct

25

New Study Found: Adrenaline helps brain store traumatic memories

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Now Scientists have discovered a cellular mechanism behind traumatic memories, activated by a stress hormone, which may be linked with our long-term survival.

Louise Faber and her colleagues have demonstrated how noradrenaline, the brain’s equivalent of adrenaline, affects the amygdala .

Faber said, “This is a new way of understanding how neurons form long-term memories in the amygdala,”

According to Faber, “Our strongest and most vivid human memories are usually associated with strong emotional events such as those associated with extreme fear, love and rage. For many of us, our deepest memories are mental snapshots taken during times of high emotional impact or involvement,”

She said, “Some aspects of memory formation are incredibly robust - and the mechanism we’ve discovered opens another door in terms of understanding how these memories are formed,”



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