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World Service,2 mins

How training rats to forget can help humans

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Neuroscientist Michael Anderson from the University of Cambridge, UK, has been looking at the similarities between the way rats and human forget. He says understanding the mechanisms could help in treating traumatic conditions. So just how do you train a rat to forget? (Image: Pet rat, Credit: Getty Images.)

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