Reactivating Positive Memories Can Reverse Depression

It has been shown by the team of researchers that the symptoms of the depression can be cured in mice by artificially reactivating the joyful memories which have been formed before the onset of depression. These findings have been published in many news papers in which it has been offered by the researchers that there is an easy explanation for the success of psychotherapies in which the depression patients have been encouraged in order to recall good experience. 

According to the team of researchers with Engineering College Jaipur, new ways have also been suggested by them in order to treat depression by manipulating the brain cells where memories are stored as the researchers believe that this type of targeted approach could have lesser side effects in comparison to most current antidepressive drugs that bathe the complete brain.

The researchers told that once the specific sites have been identified in the memory circuit that are not functioning well or whose improvement will bring advantageous results then there is the possibility of the inventing new medical technology where the improvement will be targeted to the particular part of the circuit instead of administering a drug as well as letting that drug function everywhere in the brain.

As per the study conducted by the team of researchers and Best MBA College in Rajasthan, this type of intervention is not possible in humans but this analysis can be very helpful in giving the information regarding where to target particular disorders. Although it has been reported by the researchers that they could label as well as reactivate clusters of brain cells which store particular memories and they called engrams.

Most recently, it has been reported by the team of researchers that they could plant wrong memories as well as switch the emotional associations of a specific memory from positive to negative. It has also discovered by the researchers that if there is the ability to reactivate existing memories, ten it could be exploited to treat depression.

In order to perform this task, first mice have been exposed by the researchers to a pleasurable experience. In this case, all of the mice were male.  


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