The findings may help to explain how conditions like persistent fear, anxiety and memory disorders arise.
Human memory can be incredibly fragile, as most people will know to their annoyance.
Events that are emotional, quick or surprising are particularly difficult to remember accurately.
However, one of the mechanisms that can make memory so fallible is the updating process.
Under some circumstances, the brain can take existing poor memories and distort them even further.
The findings may help to explain how conditions like persistent fear, anxiety and memory disorders arise.
People can easily become fearful of situations that are perfectly safe because their memory of really dangerous situations is distorted and enlarged.
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