Freie Universität Berlin

Merel Kindt and her team demonstrated that fear memory can be deleted in humans (Kindt et al. 2009). This was achieved by the oral administration of β-adrenergic receptor antagonist propranolol before the reactivation of memory. They propose that their strategy of disrupting the (re-) stabilization of a memory after retrieval (reconsolidation) could pave the way […]

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