Research Interest
How we forget our memories?
Humans are subjected to many daily life experiences and memories of these experiences, with their joyfulness and painfulness, shape the human character. In the past few decades research was focused on how we form memories in our brain, when we learn new information. However, little is known about how we forget memories already formed in our brains. The answer to this question is not only important to prevent losing our valuable memories as a part of our past experience, but also to enhance removal of anxious painful memories. Why to remove painful memories? When these memories are very painful to the extent that they trigger a psychological disorder, like a disease called post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), intervention is needed to forget them or destabilize them.
I am now doing my post-doctoral studies in the biochemistry department, faculty of medicine, University of Toyama, Japan. My current research is focusing the mechanisms of memory destabilization using animal behavioural analysis and different molecular biological techniques. My research is supported by Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) from MEXT Japan.