Researchers at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) revealed that stress alters how our brain encodes and retrieves aversive memories, and they developed a potential new method for restoring adequate memory specificity in persons suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 4 (ANI): Scientist Richard Semon introduced the concept of the 'engram' 115 years ago to posit a neural basis for memory, but direct evidence for engrams has only begun to accumulate recently as sophisticated technologies and methods have become available.