The phrase 'negative memories' is correct and can be used in written English.
For example, "I can't help but feel overwhelmed when I think of all the negative memories I have from my childhood."
These good things that we recall and experience can actually over-write negative memories.
We hypothesized that sleep would preferentially stabilize the contextual aspects of negative memories.
"The prediction that it would make positive memories more positive and negative memories less negative is true.
By contrast, during recollection of negative memories, the brain scans showed a decreased activation under MDMA compared with placebo.
The volunteers were also asked to write down six positive and six negative memories before they began the trial.
Meanwhile, the more figurative pictures -- of houses, skyscrapers, sluice gates, maps, plants and trees -- are meant to erase negative memories.
Some students have negative memories of social services and want to prevent others going through the same ordeal, explains Hickman.
"By artificially activating circuits in the brain, scientists have turned negative memories into positive ones," writes Webb.
And as with Somalia, fighting shadowy insurgents in Iraq while propping up a weak government engenders negative memories of Vietnam.
For example, when asked to recall important emotional events, people remember four negative memories for every positive one.
Within groups, patients showed greater scores for negative memories, and controls showed greater scores for positive memories.
