Scientists at MIT have figured out how to erase the long-term memory of a lab rat:
In the experiment, neuroscientists from MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory targeted the hippocampus, an area of the brain that’s key to forming and maintaining memory. They manipulated synapses in the rat’s hippocampus in order to erase long-term memories, and study how the rat learns, without affecting the animal’s short-term memory, according to the story.
It’s a brave new world, folks…