News How Stress Hormones Promote Brain's Building Of Negative Memories

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Scientists have discovered a key component to better understanding how traumatic memories may be strengthened in women. Their study's findings suggest that developing clinical treatments that could lower norepinephrine levels immediately following a traumatic event might offer a way to prevent this memory-enhancing mechanism from occurring.

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Interesting article, I wonder how said cortisol affects people on a long term basis such as in prolonged trauma.