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> erasing a specific kind of memory under very specific conditions Why do you think it erases the memory?

• blattimwind 8y ago
  > Propranolol achieves selective erasure: It targets the emotional component, but knowledge is intact. They know what happened, but they aren’t scared anymore. The fear association is affected, but not the innate fear response to a threat stimulus [...] This single-session therapy addressing what psychologists call fear memory reconsolidation emotional/fear association sounds like a type of memory to me.
  • thrav 8y ago
    Read “The Body Keeps the Score”, it is. Your entire nervous system has a memory, not just your brain. https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22429941-200-the-lifelong-cost-of-burying-our-traumatic-experiences/amp/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22429941-200-the-life...
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