Fascinating: Uhhh I Forgot

Is Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind coming close to reality?

Could be.

From Science A Go-Go...

Working with rodents, scientists have been able to selectively and safely remove both new and old memories by using a protein critical to brain cell communication.

Much as a war veteran remembers a fateful patrol when he was fired upon, mice can establish a very long-lasting emotional memory about a place if, for example, they receive a mild shock to the paws while there. The researchers showed if they over-expressed a specific protein found only in the brain, this powerful memory was rapidly erased as the animals tried to retrieve them while other memories remained intact.

While the ability to rapidly erase a selective memory is exciting, Dr. Tsien cautions that much more work needs to be done before the process could be applied to humans.

Here's a novel idea...forget about erasing memories and concentrate on finding something that restores memories. Now, where did I put those keys?