Fake Memories?

This article was extremely intriguing. According to the article, mice can completely forget something has happened, in this case an electrical shock sent through the floor. They forgot the experience due to a light shined on a certain point on their eye which affected their hippo campus. The mice forgot what happened and I found this astonishing, imagine the possibilities. If this could work on humans, the experiances that scare solders, when they kill someone, or a family who was robbed and the mental damage done to the family, could all be gone. Everything that a person remembers, like a bad childhood, it could be gone, poof, just like that. This could be used for some great good, but could also be used for bad. Such as people wiping peoples memories and such. 

Science News for Kids (2013, August 7). Fake memories | Science News for Kids. Retrieved August 10, 2013, from http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2013/08/a-flash-of-light-in-the-brain-plants-false-memories/