Treatments to erase memories could ease depression in humans! This is suggested by the research finding that depressed loner mice become more sociable when a memory molecule is deleted from their brain. The treatment approach works as well as giving mice antidepressants, the journal Science reported.



Study author Olivier Berton of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center says, “We focused on this molecule in a region of the brain that people call the reward pathway, which people have studied a lot in relation to drugs that are abused.”



Deleting the molecule from this part of the brain meant that the mice were never depressed and fearful, even though conditions were set up that normally would make them run and hide, Berton added.



Via: Better Humans