Study charts origins of fear memory

TORONTO, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- A team of researchers led by the University of Toronto has charted how and where a painful event becomes permanently etched in the brain.

The researchers said their discovery has treatment implications for pain-related emotional disorders such as post-traumatic stress. U-of-T Physiology Professor Min Zhuo and colleagues, Professor Bong-Kiun Kaang of Seoul National University and Professor Bao-Ming Li of China's Fudan University, identified where emotional fear memory begin.

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