Thanks for the future memories

sea-maid submitted, created time 4 months 6 days (www.sciencenews.org)

Scientists have found that the same machinery that we use to construct our memories of the past also helps us to imagine and envision the future.

Other studies show that total amnesiacs report a “blank” when asked about their personal futures. And severely depressed patients, who tend to think about both the past and future in a nonspecific manner, have difficulty visualizing positive future events.

This article also discusses different kinds of memories, how they're constructed, and how they might contribute to an individual's life and survival.

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Amnesia produced by altered release of neurotransmitters after intraamygdala injections of a protein synthesis inhibitor

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Amnesia produced by protein synthesis inhibitors such as anisomycin provides major support for the prevalent view that the formation of long-lasting memories requires de novo protein synthesis. However, inhibition of protein synthesis might disrupt other neural functions to interfere with memory formation.

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I can

Hunter9 submitted, created time 1 year 9 months (www.nature.com)

Imagine a day on the beach: the hot sand, warm sunshine and aquamarine waters. Easy for you and me. But near impossible for some amnesiacs, according to new research.

When Eleanor Maguire, a neuroscientist from University College London, UK, asked volunteers to imagine a fictional new experience, they had no trouble conjuring up detailed and enticing scenes of forests, castles or beaches. As a memory specialist, she wondered what would happen if she asked patients with amnesia, who have a well-established deficit in remembering their past experiences, to do the same thing

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