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February 16, 2009

Memory Erasing Emoticeuticals Back in the News

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emoti.jpgEvery year or so for the past half dozen, a news story makes headlines that highlights the memory fading quality of propanolol. This time around it is a Dutch study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience that is making the rounds. Emoticeuticals that can mute emotional memories are a double edged sword that will continue to create controversy the more precise they become and the more wide spread their usage gets.

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