Posted on 02/16/2009 9:45:04 PM PST by StilettoRaksha
LONDON (Reuters) - A widely available blood pressure pill could one day help people erase bad memories, perhaps treating some anxiety disorders and phobias, according to a Dutch study published on Sunday.
The generic beta-blocker propranolol significantly weakened people's fearful memories of spiders among a group of healthy volunteers who took it, said Merel Kindt, a psychologist at the University of Amsterdam, who led the study.
"We could show that the fear response went away, which suggests the memory was weakened," Kindt said in a telephone interview.
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Then, eventually erase “everything that’s really non-leftist”?
Now we need something that can erase “bad realities”
Will it take away our fear of Marxist Democrats?? .. I HOPE NOT!!!
Inderal (propanolol) has been used for anxiety disorders and phobias, particularly social phobias for some time. I think these articles and tv spots are bringing people to believe that this is some magic pill that will erase bad memories; it will do no such thing. Inderal is good medicine and mainly what it does, as a beta-blocker, is to limit the fight or flight response and lessen the emotional severity of a particular fear or trauma.
They should call the pill the Ex-Wife 5000
I like spiders, it’s liberals who disgust me.
heh :)
The first thing that came to mind was the Soma drug in “Brave New World.”
The second thing was zombie and the TV presenter said it just as I was thinking it.
You’re right. I took Inderal years ago for migraine headaches (this was before better drugs became available). It did help with the migraines, but it slowed down my heart rate dramatically. I remember being a passenger in a car that narrowly avoided a horrific collision, and my pulse rate didn’t budge. Everybody else was rightly shaking with adrenaline; I could have a threaded a needle, no problem.
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