Can we edit memories? | Amy Milton

Trauma and PTSD rewire your brain -- especially your memory -- and can unearth destructive emotional responses when stirred. Could we eliminate these triggers without erasing the memories themselves? Enter neurologist Amy Milton's mind-blowing, memory-editing clinical research poised to defuse the damaging effects of painful remembered experiences and offer a potential path toward better mental health.

[mostafashawky]

Cleaning our memory is a blessing we might be taking it for granted

[mralmightypanag]

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[QuestionEverythingButWHY]

"I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past."
--Virginia Woolf

[itouchtheskyilovetrentino]

Thank you so much for talking of this very important argument and explaining very well what is PTSD and how to overcome it. Lovely watching and listening to you here on the top of Italian mountain.

[missyasche]

As a PTSD sufferer this encouraged me. I would do anything to be able to do seemingly the simplest of tasks without paralyzing fear which seems to come from out of nowhere.

[QuestionEverythingButWHY]

"The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time."
--Friedrich Nietzsche

[phm]

That graph about fear levels and memory activation/ optimisation is so interesting and makes so much sense to my life! If you take something too seriously, you can't activate your brain, if you do not take something seriously enough, you cannot activate your brain either. The key to brain optimisation is therefore to take something fairly serious on a day-to-day level and being lax towards something generally then getting super hyped every so often just does not work with high brain optimisation and high achievement - amazing how easy it is to forget this in the world and fall into the complacency/ super hyped trap.

[TheRemmertMethod]

Excellent talk, and the great news is - we can already change memories much quicker and easier than you may expect - and without Propranolol, or any other drug - if we edit the original "reference" (non-declarative, emotional - childhood - memory), first. The one that created the "reference" for the response to the trauma experience. Then, as Amy Milton points out in this talk, we can still remember the original event, but without the emotional response.

[kaiceecrane]

As a person with PTSD the memories of trauma aren't the issue, the actual trauma is and how that affects you. Most of my trauma I don't remember, so some of those memories aren't being remembered, but they still affect me regardless and only therapy has helped. See describes how people with PTSD store memories about their trauma but my own memories are extremely vivid and I can tell you every detail of what was happening and describe every aspect, in fact my trauma based memories are my strongest in terms of nonemotional information of course along side emotional information. God damn lady, I don't want my trauma memories erased, I just want them to be treated and have help living with them. That trauma is major aspect of who I am now, don't get rid of it, and especially don't get rid of my worst moments because we only consciously experience emotions after having contrast to understand them with; my darkest moments make my bright one even brighter, don't take that away!

[danielsteel]

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EDIT: ill-considered wording, based on immediate emotional reaction

[bimalbogati]

Sometimes, those traumatic memories also help you to not repeat the same kind of mistakes which you made and save you from creating another haunting memory. That's what PTSD has taught me.

[issamhammadi-]

Ted is an great channel that allow you to get infos in many topics and it helps you to learn English in the same time.
Keep going!

[Zahar-M]

it was the most mesmerizing video and findings I have ever heard of in psychology stuff
Great job!

[fenellahemus_NLP]

Time Line Therapy(R) works for PTSD and doesn't involve 'destroying memory', which could be problematic as it would leave a gap in memory. This process involves removing the emotional charge on traumatic and stops the trigger response. The Rewind Technique is also used to treat PTSD successfully and is similar to Time Line Therapy(R).

[akhilab]

This sounds wonderful, I hope more research goes into this.

[starkidpotter]

Whoever is coughing in the background is giving me PTSD

[leylahuseynova]

Ted.com so perfect channel..i develop my eng. Lang. With this channel

[johnchristopherlayton]

SO INTELLIGENT AND UNDERSTANDING! ❤️❤️❤️👏👏👏

[DoctorCarrieHall]

I've asked this question so many times.

[ddpwe]

What a leap forward in mental health! Reprogramming the brain to run in a typical manor as opposed to the atypical mix-ups. Is that what all mental problems are, memories that aren't cataloged properly?