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Scientists can erase memories now… would YOU?!
Scientists can erase memories now… would YOU?!
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- So I'm in a new sci-fi film about erasing memories.
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It's called "Recollection."
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I'm even on the poster.
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But this all made me wonder,
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is memory erasing technology actually possible?
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Well, here's the thing.
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It feels like your memory works like a camera.
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Experiences get saved to some master hard drive
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until you press play and watch it back,
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just as they originally happened.
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But this isn't how your memory actually works.
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A memory is really just a pattern of neurons
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firing in specific sequence like a constellation.
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And every time that pattern fires their connections
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get a little bit stronger.
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It's like a path through tall grass.
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It first time you walk through, you've barely made a trail,
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walk the same route a few more times,
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and now you've worn a real path.
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Now you've made a memory. Here's where it gets weird.
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When you wanna recall a memory,
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your brain has to re-walk the path.
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And to do that, sometimes it has to physically rebuild
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those connections between neurons.
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That means every time you remember something,
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you might end up changing it slightly,
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and the next time you recall it,
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you're actually only remembering that new version,
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not the original memory.
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That means there are these brief moments
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where a memory's vulnerable to being changed.
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Scientists call that reconsolidation.
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Neuroscientist, Steve Ramirez,
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has used this to do something wild.
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He tags specific memory cells in a mouse's brain
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with these light sensitive proteins,
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then fired a laser to activate the positive memory cells.
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He was able to overwrite the negative memory,
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and replace it with a happier one.
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In humans, researchers have tried giving people
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beta blockers.
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It's a kind of heart medication
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right as they recall a traumatic memory.
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It's still experimental, but that drug messes
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with the memory rebuilding step
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and sometimes loses some of its emotional pain.
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But researchers have also found that our memories
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are connected to lots of other things in our brain.
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It's all interconnected.
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So if you delete a memory, what else might go with it?
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The film "Recollection" asks if you could erase
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your worst memory, would you?
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What do you think?
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And if you want to see me in a movie,
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search for "Recollection" online.
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