{"id":94390,"date":"2019-08-02T20:42:43","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T03:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/finally-a-real-life-memory-erasing-technique-for-humans"},"modified":"2019-08-02T20:42:43","modified_gmt":"2019-08-03T03:42:43","slug":"finally-a-real-life-memory-erasing-technique-for-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/finally-a-real-life-memory-erasing-technique-for-humans","title":{"rendered":"Finally, a Real-Life Memory-Erasing Technique for Humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/finally-a-real-life-memory-erasing-technique-for-humans2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Get your <em>Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind <\/em>references ready, because scientists have just figured out a way to erase bad memories using\u2014you guessed it\u2014electroshock therapy. Get ready for on-demand forgetting. It\u2019s a real thing now.<\/p>\n<p>A team of Dutch neuroscientists recently devised an electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) to \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/zapping-the-brain-can-help-to-spot-clean-nasty-memories-1.14431\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">target and disrupt patients\u2019 memory of a disturbing episode<\/a>.\u201d <em>Nature<\/em> explains how patients were showed two traumatic narratives in a slideshow and then subjected to the new technique:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The team later prompted patients to recall only one of the stories by replaying part of that slide show. Immediately afterwards, when the reactivated memory is thought to be vulnerable, the patients received electroconvulsive therapy.<\/p>\n<p>One day later, when given a multiple-choice memory test, patients were significantly worse at remembering details from the reactivated story, performing near chance. Patients\u2019 memory of the other story, however, remained largely unscathed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get your Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind references ready, because scientists have just figured out a way to erase bad memories using\u2014you guessed it\u2014electroshock therapy. Get ready for on-demand forgetting. It\u2019s a real thing now. A team of Dutch neuroscientists recently devised an electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) to \u201ctarget and disrupt patients\u2019 memory of a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}