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In his new book, neuroscientist Steve Ramirez delves in the fast-growing field of memory manipulation, which is being explored as a treatment for depression and other mental health conditions. Reading ...

But the way he went about it had serious consequences. He turned to alcohol – and developed a severe drinking problem. The realisation that things had gone too far came years later, in February 2021, ...

Can memories be artificially erased, enhanced, reactivated, or—as in the 2010 movie Inception—flat-out falsified? Yes to all, contends neuroscientist Ramirez in his riveting debut, which blends ...

The human brain is an enigma with remarkable capabilities, many of which remain a mystery. One brain function is currently being investigated at Boston University: the ability to artificially ...

On May 26, 2011, neuroscientist Steve Ramirez, then a Ph.D. student at MIT, and his colleague, the late Xu Liu, placed a mouse into a box where it had never had any negative experiences and then ...