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MIT researchers find a drug that helps erase traumatic memories

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When they paired the re-exposure therapy with an injection of the HDAC inhibitor drug that they showed helped prime their brains to learn the safe association, they found that the mice were better able to extinguish the fearful memory. “If we combine …
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'Social risk is too big a gamble'

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Shawn Crockwell, Bermuda's Minister of Tourism Development and Transport, maintains that this current government is committed to dedicating funds generated from casinos for programmes that counsel and treat problem and pathological gamblers. “We …
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Experts say sadness is wrongly being medicalised

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One of the authors had worked on previous versions of the US diagnostic criteria for depression – the fourth version of the American Psychiatric Association's “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders” or DSM-IV. The piece was published in …
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