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 Brunets 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, Im 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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(wink)
Oh no, God forgot about that.....
Oh no, God forgot about that.....
You hope but you’re not sure.
I’m trying to figure out why I should care about Brexit.
What are you sure about?
If I knew, I would not have brought the subject up. I am not sure of anything.
My first thought, too.
Sounds great for the Snowflake emotionally crippled social misfits....why not just get a lobotomy?
Not a combat vet. Though I was married for 22 years!
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