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If you could erase the worst memory of your life, would you? Scientists are working on a pill
Nationalpost.com Canada ^ | Sharon Kirkey October 31, 2019 8:07 PM EDT Last Updated November 1, 2019 11:19 AM EDT

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: alainbrunet; amnesia; meninblack; totalrecall
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1 posted on 11/01/2019 11:10:31 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

i hope it’s a blue pill


2 posted on 11/01/2019 11:11:14 AM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: Red Badger

Eight years of obama - that’s a lot of dead brain cells.


3 posted on 11/01/2019 11:12:24 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They are openly stating that they intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live.>>>)
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To: Red Badger

Moronic idea.


4 posted on 11/01/2019 11:14:51 AM PDT by karnage
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To: Red Badger

What could go wrong?


5 posted on 11/01/2019 11:15:12 AM PDT by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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To: Red Badger

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind


6 posted on 11/01/2019 11:15:35 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: Red Badger
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.

7 posted on 11/01/2019 11:16:53 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: Red Badger

British science says...


8 posted on 11/01/2019 11:21:31 AM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: G Larry

“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! ^^


9 posted on 11/01/2019 11:21:57 AM PDT by SolidRedState (I used to think bizarro world was a fiction.)
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“(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!”

— Captain Kirk, Star Trek V
Makes more sense to me the older I get.
10 posted on 11/01/2019 11:22:26 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Red Badger

When you remove the worst one, the next one steps up to be the worst and so on.


11 posted on 11/01/2019 11:22:29 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: Red Badger
Image result for MIB FORGET GIF
12 posted on 11/01/2019 11:22:55 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Red Badger

Your memories, good or bad, make up WHO you are - start erasing them and you become Someone Else, not necessarily a better person.


13 posted on 11/01/2019 11:23:06 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Red Badger

You mean I could forget Bubba was elected?


14 posted on 11/01/2019 11:23:06 AM PDT by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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To: Mount Athos

i hope it’s a blue pill

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No. That just makes the memories HARDER.


15 posted on 11/01/2019 11:24:02 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Red Badger

...the memory of Dave Roberts letting Yu Darvish pitch to George Springer in game 7 of the 2017 World Series.


16 posted on 11/01/2019 11:24:09 AM PDT by GSWarrior (I am a victim of racism every time I am called a racist because of my race.)
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To: Red Badger; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; ...

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


17 posted on 11/01/2019 11:24:27 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Red Badger

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..


18 posted on 11/01/2019 11:25:28 AM PDT by max americana (Fired ONE libtard at work at every election since 2008 because I enjoy it. I hope every lib die.)
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If you could erase the worst memory of your life, would you? Scientists are working on a pill

How would they get Hillary to take the pill?

19 posted on 11/01/2019 11:25:40 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Red Badger

Pain is often times strong medicine. We don’t have an opportunity to learn things and correct our bad choices otherwise.


20 posted on 11/01/2019 11:27:41 AM PDT by grimalkin (Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man. -Fulton J. Sheen)
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