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CU: Trauma can be forgotten
CU study finds practice may help put painful thoughts out of mind
By Katy Human Denver Post Staff Writer Staff writer Katy Human can be reached at 303-954-1910 or khuman@denverpost.com.
Article Last Updated: 07/13/2007 06:21:55 AM MDT
There may yet be a way to erase that aching memory of the middle school snub, the deafening car crash - or the fiery explosion that killed your friend and took your leg. Forget it - with practice. "Individuals can learn to suppress emotional memories," said Brendan Depue, a doctoral candidate in psychology at the University of Colorado at Boulder and lead author of a memory study published today in the journal Science. Depue and two colleagues at CU and the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center coached 16 people to forget terrible images they'd been shown earlier - car crashes, the electric chair, a wounded soldier.

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