An nameless reader writes "Computer intelligent retrieval that can't forget fast enough can show diagnostics of of virtual schizophrenia, giving researchers new clues to the inner dohickey of schizophrenic brains, say researchers at the teaching hospital of Texas at Austin and Yale University. In their experiments, the scientists used a virtual neural network to fake an superfluous release of dopamine in the brain and found that the network recalled memories in a distinctly schizophrenic-like fashion. The results bolster a hypothesis known in schizophrenia circles as the hyperlearning hypothesis, which posits that people martyrdom from schizophrenia have brains that lose the ability to forget or ignore as much as they consistently would. Without forgetting, they lose the ability to extract what's important out of the immensity of stimuli the brain encounters."

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