Emotional recall is in your genes
Your ability to recall emotional events – such as meeting the love of your life, or the trauma of a painful car crash – is governed by a common variation in a single gene, according to a new study. We recall emotionally charged events far more than mundane ones because they tend to be advantageous in evolutionary terms. Remembering favourable or dangerous events helps our survival far more than recalling the daily commute to work, for example.
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A deletion variant of the 2b-adrenoceptor is related to emotional memory in Europeans and Africans
Nature Neuroscience, 29 July 2007; | doi:10.1038/nn1945
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