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Editing out fear

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Retrieving a memory initiates a window of vulnerability for that memory. Simple behavioural methods can modify distressing memories during this window, eliminating fear reactions to traumatic reminders.

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Figure 1: Preventing fear's return.

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  1. *This article and the paper under discussion were published online on 9 December 2009.

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  1. Gregory J. Quirk is in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-5067, USA. gjquirk@yahoo.com,

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  2. Mohammed R. Milad is in the Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts 02129, USA. milad@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu,

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Quirk, G., Milad, M. Editing out fear. Nature 463, 36 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/463036a

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