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Researchers Have Found a Way to Help Erase Bad Memorieswww.sciencealert.com/researchers-have-found-a-way-to-help-erase-bad-memories
448 sats \ 7 comments \ @south_korea_ln 13 Jan science
Being able to erase bad memories and traumatic flashbacks could help in the treatment of a host of different mental health issues, and scientists have found a promising new approach to do just this: weakening negative memories by reactivating positive ones.
Not as futuristic and drastic as in the Apple TV show Severance (highly recommended, and a new season will come out soon after a long hiatus), but this might be a less intrusive way to deal with traumatic memories.
Published in PNAS which is a top journal.
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6 sats \ 1 reply \ @Coinsreporter 13 Jan
This means we'll only see laughter and smiles and tears and weeping will be less and less.
Happy World!
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147 sats \ 0 replies \ @NovaRift 13 Jan
You won't really get how good a fresh sweet apple is until you've tried a rotten one.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @itsrealfake 13 Jan
this is relevant (it's also one of the coolest bio-hacks I've heard of)
https://www.emdr.com/what-is-emdr/
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a psychotherapy treatment that is designed to alleviate the distress associated with traumatic memories.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @tomlaies 13 Jan
I can already smell the shizoposting from people that think this already worked like a scifi machine.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Msd0457890 13 Jan
It is a very particular investigation, I wonder if traveling to places that give you peace would help with this, personally I think so.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @LowK3y19 13 Jan
The old fashioned way was a bottle of jack
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @NovaRift 13 Jan
It's still very early. the team says that seeing aversive images in a lab experiment wouldn't have the same scale of impact on memory formation as experiencing a traumatic event. The real thing might be harder to overwrite.
It's still early days, but shout out to the researchers! Hopefully, in the future, PTSD treatments could truly help people heal from past events they had no control over.
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