I was reading this in The Week today, the actual article I believe is in a publication called "Nature". If there are any typing errors my bad:
"Imagine being able to rewind a person's memory like a movie and erase a single, traumatic incident. A new study indicates that it may someday be possible, says Nature. Scientists at New York University have discovered a way to erase single memories from the brains of rats, leaving the rest of the memory network intact. In the study, two groups of rats were trained to fear musical notes by associating them with the delivery of painful electric shocks. The trained rats cowered when they heard the tones, expecting an electric shock. Then the researches gave one of the groups an amnesia-producing drug called U0126. The next day, they played the musical tones for both groups of rats. While the untreated rats cowered in fear, the rats that had been given U0126 didn't react at all. They had forgotten the experience of being shocked. The ability to erase a single memory could be a way to cure people of post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental illnesses connected to disturbing experiences, says neurophysiologist Greg Quir. 'This is the future of psychiatry.'"
Pretty interesting, right? My mom went through a lot when she was young, all of her years to follow were affected because of her childhood/teenage years. Compounding that over the years with everything life can throw at you caused her health to take a bad turn and continuously deteriorate; that is a large portion as to why I'm pursuing Psychiatrics. I'm a firm believer that a persons mental state has adverse effect upon their physical state of being.