The Channing Tatum-starrer Blink Twice introduces a chilling concept with its memory erasing drug, which is central to the film’s suspenseful plot. This mysterious substance plays a crucial role in ...

In 1961 Rolf Landauer linked information and thermodynamic entropy by showing that erasing or combining bits of memory must be accompanied by an increase in entropy. For the first time since then, a ...

Memory-erasing drugs could do more than erase a bad memory; they could help treat mental ailments such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and one neuroethicist argues that these drugs should be ...

New research out of Stanford University suggests erasing memories associated with opioid addiction could eliminate the triggers that lead to drug cravings and relapse into addiction. A fascinating ...

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about propranolol, a drug that can erase the emotion of fearful memories. When volunteers take the drug before recalling a scary memory about a spider, it dulled the ...

Long-term memories, particularly bad ones, could be dissolved if certain drugs are administered at just the right moment during recall Slipping on a pair of dark glasses, Agent Kay raises a mysterious ...

In a recent study published in The Journal of Neuroscience, researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham took a different approach to dyskinesia and treated it like a “bad motor memory.” ...