
Can we edit memories? | Amy Milton
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Trome films produced something like flashbacks in healthy volunteers for about a week after viewing them. We found that getting people to recall those memories, the worst moments of those unpleasant films, and playing tetris at the same time massively reduce the frequency of the flashbacks. Now my collaborators have since taken this to clinical populations. They've tested this in survivors of rhoad traffic accidents and mothers who've had emergency cesarian sections,. Both types of troma frequently lead to p t s d. And they've found really promising reductions in symptoms in both of those clinical cases. So although there is still much to learn and procedures to optimize, these memory destroying treatments hold great promise for the treatment of mental