Researchers Proves that You Can Now Erase Painful Memories! Here's How!

We all have things in past that we never forget and of course we'd like to forget, like bad break ups, traumatic experience, loss. No matter how hard we try, these memories can continue to haunt us, occasionally triggering conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder and phobias, just one intractable and unwelcome memory can influence a lifetime of perceptions, emotions and behavior, despite therapists' best efforts.

If it all sounds a little science fiction, that's because it is - films such as Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind and Total Recall have long toyed with the idea of altering our memories. But thanks to better imaging technology, researchers have now figured out how to delete, change, and even implant memories, not just in animals, but also in human subjects.

And their research has uncovered several physiological interventions, including electrical currents and well-timed pharmacology, that appear to help destabilize fearful memories, a finding that could lead to more effective, targeted psychotherapy in the future.

In the past, scientists used to think that memories were stored in one specific spot, like a neurological file cabinet, but they've since realized that every single memory we have is locked up in connections across the brain.



To explain it simply, a memory is formed when proteins stimulate our brains cells to grow and form new connections - literally rewiring our minds' circuitry.

Speaking to The Telegraph, Richard Gray said, “The research suggests memories can be manipulated because they act as if made from glass, existing in a molten state as they are being created, before turning solid.”


“When the memory is recalled, however, it becomes molten again and so can be altered before it once more resets,” Gray added.

In 2015, researchers from Netherlands  blocked norepinephrine using a drug called propranolol in order to take away arachnophobes’ fear of spiders.

Source: The Daily Pedia