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A new study on mice uncovers some answers that could someday offer a powerful target for eliminating the recurrence of bad memor
A new study on mice uncovers some answers that could someday offer a powerful target for eliminating the recurrence of bad memor
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2014-05-20
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A new study on mice uncovers some answers that could someday offer a powerful target for eliminating the recurrence of bad memories in humans, especially known to those who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder(PTSD: mental disorder caused by accidents of emergency).
"Fear memories are the most robust memories—they can last over a lifetime," says Nadine Gogol-la, a biologist at Harvard University and lead author on the paper published recently in the journal Science. "You can push them far back, but spontaneous recovery and relapses will happen. " Until now, science has been unable to stop this process—in humans or in mice.
By repeating the previously reported rat findings, Gogolla and her colleagues found that at some point during a young mouse’s development—between about 16 and 23 days postnatal—a molecular net of sorts is cast over a region of the brain called the amygdala, effectively crystallizing formerly changeable memories.
"It looks just like what you would expect from a fisherman’s net," says Gogolla of the protein matrix(a living part in which something is formed)under the microscope. "And it acts as a structural constraint on the cells. How it does that, nobody really knows. " But the result is that memories are held inside. What the researchers did learn was that by cutting that net—with an injection of an enzyme that digests the chains linking the matrix together—memories could be once again destabilized.
"The drug cuts the net into its pieces," Gogolla says, "just like when you cut the strings of a net and it falls apart. " Then, for a couple of weeks, the original youthful plasticity in the neuronal circuits of the amygdala is regained and any bad memory formed after the matrix digestion could be subsequently eliminated through "extinction" therapy, a common treatment during which a patient is presented with the original fear trigger but in a context that is not fearful. When the treatment was given after a mouse underwent fear conditioning, however, extinction was unable to cut out that memory completely.
"Because the treatment has to occur before a traumatic event, it’s hard to make it immediately available," notes Gogolla. " But it does help us in finding the underlying mechanisms. " Eventually, she hopes tools can be found that can be applied after fear—inducing experiences, and that translate from mice to humans. This would be welcome relief for the approximately 20 percent of all military personnel who have returned from Iraq and Afghanistan reporting symptoms of PTSD, not to mention for heartbroken couples.
The findings of Gogolla’s study will be most probably applied to treat ______.
选项
A、mice instead of humans
B、heartbroken couples only
C、the soldiers who are suffering from PTSD
D、those who are suffering from all kinds of mental diseases
答案
C
解析
推理题。由题干关键词most probably applied定位至本文最后一段。本段大意为:格古拉的研究发现了“消退疗法”的局限性,但相关发现却有助于进行后续研究。她希望找到可以在恐怖经历发生之后使用的方法,并且把应用对象从老鼠推广到人类。如果这一切能够实现,那么从战场归来的军人必将是最大的受益者,故选项[C]为正确答案。
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