{"id":38818,"date":"2021-05-03T08:59:24","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T08:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elpais.com\/ciencia\/2021-05-03\/un-farmaco-les-quita-el-miedo-a-los-machos-y-aterroriza-a-las-hembras.html"},"modified":"2021-05-04T14:46:59","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T14:46:59","slug":"un-farmaco-les-quita-el-miedo-a-los-machos-y-aterroriza-a-las-hembras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/un-farmaco-les-quita-el-miedo-a-los-machos-y-aterroriza-a-las-hembras\/","title":{"rendered":"A drug gives courage to males and fear to females"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Un d\u00eda de 2019, en Sud\u00e1frica, un enorme elefante se lanz\u00f3 contra un grupo de turistas atemorizados. Uno de ellos era el psic\u00f3logo Ra\u00fcl Andero. \u201cMe qued\u00e9 completamente petrificado\u201d, recuerda. Esa reacci\u00f3n de congelaci\u00f3n ante el peligro es casi universal en los mam\u00edferos. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anderolab.com\/people\/\" >En su laboratorio<\/a> de la Universidad Aut\u00f3noma de Barcelona estudia el efecto del miedo en la memoria usando ratones a los que somete a pitidos agudos y peque\u00f1as descargas el\u00e9ctricas. Cuanto m\u00e1s tiempo pasan paralizados los animales al escuchar el pitido, m\u00e1s vivo es el recuerdo del trauma pasado. El objetivo final de Andero es lograr modular la memoria de los ratones para que el miedo no los paralice. Es el primer paso para conseguir lo mismo en personas que sufren ansiedad, traumas despu\u00e9s de una agresi\u00f3n o un accidente o fobias que les impiden vivir con normalidad.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/ciencia\/2021-05-03\/un-farmaco-les-quita-el-miedo-a-los-machos-y-aterroriza-a-las-hembras.html\" >Keep reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study with mice reveals for the first time that the same molecule has opposite effects on memory depending on the sex.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-38818","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-portal"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38818"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38911,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38818\/revisions\/38911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}