Can we edit memories? | Amy Milton

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🗓️ 19 January 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

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.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:02.0	Audio Collective.
0:04.0	Hey I'm at least.
0:08.0	Hey I'm at least Hugh with today's Ted Health. Are you haunted by a memory? Is there a past
0:15.4	experience that your mind just won't seem to let go? In her talk from TEDX
0:20.5	Cambridge University, Neuroscientist Amy Milton gives us hope to overcome our painful memories and cling to the ones that make us more whole.
0:32.0	Hey listener, a quick favor. We are conducting an audience survey and we'd be really
0:36.0	grateful if you could take just a few minutes to respond. Please visit survey.
0:40.8	PRX.org
0:42.7	health to take the survey today.
0:45.5	That's survey dot PRX.
0:47.7	slash health.
0:49.1	Thanks.
0:51.0	Memory is such an everyday thing that we almost take it for granted. We all remember what we had for breakfast this morning or what we did last weekend.
1:00.0	It's only when memory starts to fail that we appreciate just how amazing it is
1:04.6	and how much we allow our past experiences to define us.
1:08.3	But memory is not always a good thing.
1:13.5	As the American poet in clergyman,
1:15.0	John Lancaster Spalding once said,
1:17.2	as memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven,
1:20.4	it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.
1:25.0	Many of us experience chapters of our lives that we would prefer to never have happened.
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