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ChrissyCassidy discovered 14 months ago- Mind control, anyone? Creepy!!
- xsaraphanelia rated 2 months ago
- um no thanks!
- ajanderton rated 6 months ago
- brown eys... dont like em? too bad! they are your eyes, love them. your father raped you, that is awful and should have never happened. in fact you deserve better! but the fact is, life has ups and downs. ins and outs. submit to life and all that it has to offer! do not try to change what you can not... your very own mortality.
- Organicpicks rated 9 months ago
- but I like my bad memory. We forget that it is a blessing not to remember everything.
- JesseMat rated 13 months ago
- From the page: "Researchers have found they can use drugs to wipe away single, specific memories while leaving other memories intact. By injecting an amnesia drug at the right time, when a subject was recalling a particular thought, neuro-scientists discovered they could disrupt the way the memory is stored and even make it disappear."
Yeah... I just can't think of anything to say... wait did I just take one of those pills?
Seriously, though, this is scary. - From the page: "Researchers have found they can use drugs to wipe away single, specific memories while leaving other memories intact. By injecting an amnesia drug at the right time, when a subject was recalling a particular thought, neuro-scientists discovered they could disrupt the way the memory is stored and even make it disappear."
- so-and-so rated 14 months ago
- Scientists find drug to banish bad memories
- Anndaluz rated 14 months ago
- Many people will be alarmed for all the right reasons by this. The article itself seems way over the top. Propranolol is not a new drug: abuse survivors have taken these tablets for years to control anxiety caused by flashbacks. Likewise there are many people who take antipsychotic medicine for years for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder etc. and still regularly end up back in hospital. The scary thing is often they have no choice. Psychological therapies and safe havens are in short supply for severely traumatised people and many are treated by being forcibly injected with drugs which can cause severe side effects. Currently the British government wants to change the law so that people living in the community can be forced to take these drugs. I agree with the neuroscientist who likened efforts to treat severe distress with psychiatric medication to banging a radio in an effort to make it work. This appallingly crude process sometimes works, giving sufferers an escape from relentless pain. Taking propanolol by injection in a clinical situation may work better than tablets which may only kick in when the sufferer is thinking of something different. But being administered an injection (even assuming it's being taken volutarily) gives the patient less control of the process than taking tablets in their own home. Leaving aside cases of deliberate abuse; there remains an unsettling Orwellian dimension to this.
There is a very interesting radio programme on memory and the brain available on podcast here There is more information on the use of propranolol for PTSD available here, apparently the US military is funding an experimental programme on the use of the drug to treat returnees from Iraq and Afghanistan. Thanks to lush for these links. - Many people will be alarmed for all the right reasons by this. The article itself seems way over the top. Propranolol is not a new drug: abuse survivors have taken these tablets for years to control anxiety caused by flashbacks. Likewise there are many people who take antipsychotic medicine for years for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder etc. and still regularly end up back in hospital. The scary thing is often they have no choice. Psychological therapies and safe havens are in short supply for severely traumatised people and many are treated by being forcibly injected with drugs which can cause severe side effects. Currently the British government wants to change the law so that people living in the community can be forced to take these drugs. I agree with the neuroscientist who likened efforts to treat severe distress with psychiatric medication to banging a radio in an effort to make it work. This appallingly crude process sometimes works, giving sufferers an escape from relentless pain. Taking propanolol by injection in a clinical situation may work better than tablets which may only kick in when the sufferer is thinking of something different. But being administered an injection (even assuming it's being taken volutarily) gives the patient less control of the process than taking tablets in their own home. Leaving aside cases of deliberate abuse; there remains an unsettling Orwellian dimension to this.
- plu rated 14 months ago
- Shouldn't people face their fears and/or learn from their mistakes rather than use drugs to escape it/"fix it"?
- beatlebuddha rated 14 months ago
- Found through http://lush.stumbleupon.com/ Oh, what the government could do with a drug like this!
- barbslc rated 14 months ago
- Hello, what next?
- ketogah rated 14 months ago
- I have PTSD and would not want someone tinkering with my memory but it gets thumbs up for the information. from the page: "It failed to bring Jim Carrey happiness in the award-winning film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, but scientists have now developed a way to block and even delete unwanted memories from people's brains. Researchers have found they can use drugs to wipe away single, specific memories while leaving other memories intact. By injecting an amnesia drug at the right time, when a subject was recalling a particular thought, neuro-scientists discovered they could disrupt the way the memory is stored and even make it disappear. The research has, however, sparked concern among parliamentary advisers who insist that new regulations are now needed to control the use of the drugs to prevent them becoming used by healthy people as a "quick fix"." thanks jack-black for the information. http://jack-black.stumbleupon.com/
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