Posted on 11/01/2019 11:10:31 AM PDT by Red Badger
Researchers are working on ways to edit memories — to make the intolerable bearable — by, say, blocking the synaptic changes needed for a memory to solidify ==============================================================
The 60 souls that signed on for Dr. Alain Brunet’s memory manipulation study were united by something they would rather not remember. The trauma of betrayal.
For some, it was infidelity and for others, a brutal, unanticipated abandonment. “It was like, ‘I’m leaving you. Goodbye,” the McGill University associate professor of psychiatry says.
In cold, clinical terms, his patients were suffering from an “adjustment disorder” due to the termination (not of their choosing) of a romantic relationship. The goal of Brunet and other researchers is to help people like this — the scorned, the betrayed, the traumatized — lose their total recall. To deliberately forget.
Over four to six sessions, volunteers read aloud from a typed script they had composed themselves — a first-person account of their breakup, with as many emotional details as possible — while under the influence of propranolol, a common and inexpensive blood pressure pill. The idea was to purposely reactivate the memory and bring the experience and the stinging emotions it aroused to life again. “How did you feel about that?” they were asked. How do you feel right now? And, most importantly: Has your memory changed since last week?
The investigators had hypothesized that four to six sessions of memory reactivation under propranolol would be sufficient to dramatically blunt the memories associated with their “attachment injury.” Decrease the strength of the memory, Brunet says, and you decrease the strength of the pain.
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i hope it’s a blue pill
Eight years of obama - that’s a lot of dead brain cells.
Moronic idea.
What could go wrong?
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
That is WHY Christ died for us!
If we lose our memory, we stop our repentance and stop seeking God's Grace for His Mercy.
British science says...
“NO!
That is WHY Christ died for us!
If we lose our memory, we stop our repentance and stop seeking God’s Grace for His Mercy.”
^^ THIS! ^^
“(P)ain and guilt can’t be taken away with the wave of a magic wand. They’re the things we carry with us, the things that make us who we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves. I don’t want my pain taken away! I need my pain!”Makes more sense to me the older I get.
— Captain Kirk, Star Trek V
When you remove the worst one, the next one steps up to be the worst and so on.
Your memories, good or bad, make up WHO you are - start erasing them and you become Someone Else, not necessarily a better person.
You mean I could forget Bubba was elected?
i hope it’s a blue pill
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No. That just makes the memories HARDER.
...the memory of Dave Roberts letting Yu Darvish pitch to George Springer in game 7 of the 2017 World Series.
Yeah, I think I’ll pass. Now I return you to our program of dance music.
http://www.google.com/search?q=Fabulous+Thunderbirds+amnesia
This was an old episode for the new back-then series for the Twilight Zone in the 80’s..
In the “future”, a machine removes the bad memories and you can BUY someone’s great memories. The punch -line was that the lead character was addicted to other people’s great memories (like a celeb having sex with another hot celeb) and he eventually forgot who he really was..
How would they get Hillary to take the pill?
Pain is often times strong medicine. We don’t have an opportunity to learn things and correct our bad choices otherwise.
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