The Falseness of Memories

    In 1914 young men all over Europe and the United States went to war. Many did not come back whether killed in the battlefield or died due to illness. Though some did come home in 1918 but they were not the same when they did. Many of them had what they called by then shell shock or modern day PTSD.    In the study done by Stephanie Grella and colleagues called “Artificially enhancing and suppressing hippocampus-mediated memories” they wanted to experiment on how deceptive memory can be. Similar to war veterans that may have forgotten that they are now home safe and not on the battlefield the rats were put in a jar in a dark room when unexpectedly there would be a loud bang and the rats that were more scared ( the ones who’s jump had the most impact) were separated in one group called the receptive while the other group was put in another group called the resilience. The animals that were more scared were then prone to optogenetics where they were in one...