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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Court testimonies, already full of false memories, will become even more unreliable.
Wonderful.
There was a removal of memory genre movie... don’t recall the name, but the story revolved around a couple that would break up, and one, I forget which, solicited the services of a memory removal company to remove the memory of the other partner... forget which, girl or guy, maybe both, that removed the memory of the other.
No. Because we can learn from the good and bad situations in our life.
The horror continues. As an ex science fiction fan (and former book review columnist and author of nonfiction about it) this is all familiar.
Chinese would love it. No memory of what they don’t want you to remember. Like dimwitted Millenials who think the brand new idea of Socialism or Communism is worth a try today in the US. No problems with them in the past they’ve ever heard about. Clean slate.
Also earlier Drudge headlines on ways to identify and use areas of the brain which show a victim is lying when being interrogated. That was on a TV special with Deepak Chopra’s brain as the subject.
And how about torture by causing the brain to create the worst fears the individual has and believe these are happening in reality now?
Sadly, many of us are hearing more and more people in their 60s-upward say “I am so glad I’m old now and I had the chance to be young back then because the world is becoming unbearable now.”
If I could forget my ex-wife I might be for this.
A whole lot of people asking, “Am I logged in?”
I have read some really silly things before but they have become so bold as to tell us take this pill and you will become mindless and forget everything...
Except what we tell you from that point forward
Bastards, pure evil
remembering, good and bad, make us who we are.
no. i would not take the pill.
Wait. So this is all about somebody ended a relationship with someone else and now someone else can’t cope so they can choose to forget it and move on?
Shoot, enough with the “forget bad thing” pill; make a “suck it up buttercup” one!
Wow, a pill to bake you an idiot. What a colossally stupid idea.
I want ALL of my memories both good and bad. It’s who I am and how I became who I am.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, 2004, Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet.
To paraphrase Captain Kirk:
“I don’t want my pain taken away. I need my pain!”
The problem with this is that you may forget your biggest mistake but others will not.
I need TWO pills.
I voted for McCain and Romney.
It haunts me.
Hell no! That’s a good way to do the same damn thing again
“I’m perfect. I’ve NEVER done anything wrong.”
(”That I can remember.”)
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