Beta blockers may suppress memory
- Thursday, August 04 2005 @ 07:31 AM CST
- Contributed by: filbert
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BBC story muses about the ethics of using memory suppression drugs to treat Tube bombing victims.
Studies have shown that rats who have learned to fear a tone followed by an electric shock lose that fear if propranolol is administered after the tone starts.
via Reason's Hit and Run.