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Everyone’s got something in their past they want to forget, even Paris Hilton. Now there is a pharmaceutical delete button. Why go through years of therapy or self-medication then rehab, when you can take a sci-fi wonder pill? Remember Total Recall and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind?  An amnesia drug that blocks or deletes bad memories is under development by researchers at Harvard and McGill University (in Montreal). The technique seems to allow psychiatrists to disrupt the biochemical pathways that allow a memory to be recalled.In a new study, published in the Journal of Psychiatric Research, the drug propranolol is used along with therapy to "dampen" memories of trauma victims. They treated 19 accident or rape victims for ten days, during which the patients were asked to describe their memories of the traumatic event that had happened 10 years earlier. A week later, they found that patients given the drug showed fewer signs of stress when recalling their trauma.
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| This is a good idea. Only thing is, is this actually safe? |
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