#memory hackers

Hackers de la memoria humana: una peligrosa herramienta en desarrollo

Viendo un documental de Netflix descubrí algo que me llamó poderosamente la atención,un avance científico: una herramienta capaz de modificar los recuerdos de la memoria humana.

Así como lo escucha, aunque el procedimiento esta en desarrollo pero ya es una realidad.

Por ejemplo, en Holanda ya se utiliza para curar fobias, como la aracnofobia, con un éxito garantizado.

Es que los científicos…

We all have things in our past that we'd like to forget - bad break-ups, traumatic experiences, loss. No matter how hard we try, these memories can continue to haunt us, occasionally triggering conditions such as anxiety, phobias, or post-traumatic stress disorder. But scientists are now on the verge of being able to change that for good, with the discovery that our memories aren't as permanent as we once thought.

In fact, researchers have now figured out how to delete, change, and even implant memories - not just in animals, but in human subjects. And drugs that rewire our brains to forget the bad parts are already on the horizon, as PBS documentary Memory Hackers highlighted over the weekend.