Neuroscience

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Neuroscience is the study of the nervous system and the brain. When studying neuroscience, neuroscientists study things like how the brain works, what memories are, and how memories are stored. A debate that has been going on is whether or not scientists should edit the memory of humans. They hope to treat patients with Alzheimer's, dementia, etc. Also, they believe that this could help people with phobias, drug/alcohol addictions, bad habits, ptsd patients, etc. Although this seems good in theory, I think that if neuroscientists actually start to work on humans, it would turn out worse than expected. I think that if they decided to just bring back memories, this would work out good, but once they start removing memories, this is when the abuse of these treatments/drugs would begin. People would begin to use these to erase bad memories from their past, but this could entirely change the way they live. It has to do with ethics and drawing the line when it comes to science.