1. A growing number of drugs show signs of leaving memories intact but dampening the emotions of PTSD victims, while others show even stronger effects on wiping out memories, says medical ethicist Adam Kolber of the Brooklyn Law School in New York. "Dampening the emotional edges of these awful memories could help a lot of people," he says.
Kolber is trying to explain that these memory blunting pills will give a sign of relief to these PTSD victims. 2. "We've learned that if you can prevent the system from working, give a drug that blocks the action of stress hormones (upon the amygdala and brain), then you may be able to prevent the influence of making stronger memories," said James L. McGaugh, director of UC Irvine's Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory.
The pills block the bad memories from growing stronger, so instead they grow weak until it's forgotten.
3. “By inhibiting HDAC2 activity, we can drive dramatic structural changes in the brain. What happens is the brain becomes more plastic, more capable of forming very strong new memories that will override the old fearful memories,” says Tsai, the senior author of a paper describing the findings in the Jan. 16 issue of Cell.
The changes done to the brain will make new memories override the brain and erase the old bad memories.
The book, Brave New World, is about a new society that has been created to create the perfect world. They take a pill called "soma" which makes their bad memories and pain go away. this is similar to the memory blunting drug blocking out bad memories so they can live oblivious to the bad and have a good, fun-filled life. This book was written by Aldeous Huxley who believed that the developments of technology will one day lead to this point, which in today's society it already has gotten to the point of reproductive technology.
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In figure one below, it shows the statistics of war veterans that committed suicide next to the men and women in the military who died during the Afghanistan and Iraq war. Notice that PTSD caused these war veterans to kill themselves after the war due to the bad memories. More suicides took place in one year than the soldiers that died during the war after twelve years.