New pill could help you erase bad memories
Scientists have discovered a drug that can potentially
efface memories of painful events.
LISTEN AS EAST COASTERS OPEN UP ABOUT SOME OF THE MEMORIES THEY WISH THEY COULD FORGET.
Merel Kindt, a professor of psychology at the University of Amsterdam, and her colleagues have seemingly erased the emotional fear response in healthy people with a fear of spiders.
Studies have shown that once people take a drug called propranol, they no longer fear spiders because they no longer associate them with a traumatic event.
This is because the drug blocks responses in your brain that make you fear spiders when you see them.
Versions of the pill are already available via prescription but doctors are still testing it’s ability to completely erase traumatic memories associated with triggers.
If a drug that could erase bad memories was available would you take it, and what memory would you want it to erase?