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Brain scientists continue to get into more and more freaky experiments. Last year we learned of work on a “trauma pill” which would erase bad memories from your mind. The latest experiments have successfuly used drugs to erase single memories from the brains of rats while leaving other memories intact. Scientists hope these drugs will eventually be able to “cure” people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Meanwhile, scientists in Germany, Britain and Japan have successfully figured out how to read the minds of experimenters by using computers to decipher brain scans of the subjects. When given the option of thinking about addition or subtraction, scientists were able to figure out what the subjects were thinking 70 percent of the time. And, finally, a new study found that zapping your brain with electric currents while you are dreaming can boost your memory by eight percent. Of course, it will probably also shrivel up your genitals, but hey, that’s the price of progress. (BBC / Nature / New Scientist)