{"id":7223,"date":"2017-06-26T12:28:47","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T16:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7223"},"modified":"2017-06-26T12:28:47","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T16:28:47","slug":"could-the-best-memory-system-be-one-that-forgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7223","title":{"rendered":"Could The Best Memory System Be One That Forgets?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Andrea Hsu for NPR)<\/p>\n<p>Intuitively, we tend to think of forgetting as failure, as something gone wrong in our ability to remember.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Canadian neuroscientists with the University of Toronto are challenging that notion. In a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cell.com\/neuron\/fulltext\/S0896-6273(17)30365-3\">paper<\/a>\u00a0published Wednesday in the journal\u00a0<em>Neuron<\/em>, they review the current research into the neurobiology of forgetting and hypothesize that our brains purposefully work to forget information in order to help us live our lives. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2017\/06\/23\/534001592\/could-the-best-memory-system-be-one-that-forgets?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=53547152&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz--oVhTiLTiOPemueZ_cxTgk-qhPNzi6T2fkRCLISt7u9inuNuvXjTKysR-LU-71VP6XJv6NnE4vZbON37JOiELTh23jxA&amp;_hsmi=53547152\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3902\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Andrea Hsu for NPR) Intuitively, we tend to think of forgetting as failure, as something gone wrong in our<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7224,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7223\/revisions\/7224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}