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| | Intrusive emotional memories make rats forget recently learned information, USF/VA researchers find |
 | | Woodson, a USF postdoctoral fellow, and David Diamond, PhD, a USF associate professor of psychology, pharmacology and therapeutics, study long-term intrusive emotional memories in rats to better understand the neurobiology of this critical component of PTSD. |
 | | "Intrusive memories are one of the cruelest aspects of post-traumatic stress disorder because people live in constant fear of these memories resurfacing," Dr. Diamond said. |
 | | Using the animal model, Dr. Diamond and Dr. Woodson are continuing to investigate how the hippocampus, as well as other brain regions involved in emotional trauma, such as the amygdala, are affected by intrusive memories. |
| www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2003-04/uosf-iem040803.php (404 words) |
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