We all have things in our past that we’d like to forget – bad break-ups, traumatic experiences, loss. No matter how hard we try, these memories can continue to haunt us, occasionally triggering conditions such as anxiety, phobias, or post-traumatic stress disorder. But scientists are now on the verge of being able to change that for good, with the discovery that our memories aren’t as permanent as we once thought. Does this ring a bell. Well movies like “Total recall” or “Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind” have toyed with the idea in the past. Thanks to the advances in neurological scanning technology over the past few decades, we’re now closer than you might realise to making these technologies (or something similar) a reality.

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