Anaesthesia dulls emotional memories

• Autores: Catherine de Lange
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3045, 2015, pág. 12
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In 2014, a small study showed that after coming round, people found it difficult to remember the emotional content of memories they recalled just before they were given an anesthetic. But the people in this study were undergoing electroconvulsive therapy to their brain, so it wasn't clear whether it was the anesthetic or the therapy causing the change in memory. To find out, Bryan Strange at the Technical University of Madrid, Spain, recruited 40 people having an endoscopy under general anesthetic. Half were asked to recall the story as soon as they came round, the others 24 hours later. Those tested on the spot could remember the whole story, but after 24 hours the others found it much harder to remember the emotional middle than the mundane beginning or end.