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Deep brain stimulation could be used to reduce the emotional strength of a person鈥檚 memories and may one day even help tackle post-traumatic stress disorder.
at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York and his colleagues investigated the link between emotion and memory by reanalysing data from a . 鈥淲e really wanted to understand how the brain kind of naturally enhances memory for certain events over others,鈥 says Qasim.
In the study, 148 people with epilepsy had been asked to…
