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Karl Friston on the Perils of Investigations into Consciousness, Derealization, and the Free Energy Principle
Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal
Beta Blockers and Fear Extinction
Kurt Gymungal: I found the beta blockers work and there's also some evidence of fear extinction. Have you heard of that? There's this professor named Merrill Candid to, she takes people through phobias where she gets them to be extremely frightened. She actually makes them almost manicured or panicking at least. Then she gives them a beta blocker. And then there's, they still feel fear that day. It's only the next day when there's memory, reconciliation, and the emotional tags are removed because of the beta blocker. The fear seems to dissipate drastically for incurable PTSD. So if you'd like to support conversations like this, then do consider going
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