Merel Kindt: How One Pill Rewrites Fear Memories Permanently
Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal
Curt Jaimungal
4.6 • 606 Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2023
⏱️ 72 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I was thinking how can we mislead our brain and weaken the fear memory itself. |
| 0:05.0 | Emotional memory that underlies anxiety disorders is not a sort of single memory trace, but it is a network. |
| 0:11.0 | This changed our whole idea of memory. |
| 0:14.0 | This episode, we talk about a groundbreaking intervention for treatment-resistant PTSD, panic disorders, and fear |
| 0:22.3 | in general. |
| 0:23.5 | Merrill Kindit is a professor of clinical psychology and a pioneer of research in fear extinction. |
| 0:28.6 | When I heard about this research, I was flabbergasted that it wasn't getting anywhere near |
| 0:32.7 | the press that I thought it should. |
| 0:34.4 | This, by the way, is an unreleased episode from approximately two years ago |
| 0:38.0 | near the beginning of the Theories of Everything podcast with Merrill Kindit. Forgive my nascency as a |
| 0:43.1 | podcaster as I've changed substantially and hopefully substantively in various ways since then. |
| 0:48.6 | Most of them, hopefully again, positive. Enjoy. We're here with Merrill Kint of the University of Amsterdam, and she is a professor in |
| 0:57.0 | fear extinction, if I'm not mistaken, or at least that's what she studies. |
| 1:00.0 | So, Professor, can you give us an overview of your fear extinction research? |
| 1:05.0 | That is a long story, so I don't know how much time you have, but I think I have to give you a bit of a background information, |
| 1:15.6 | otherwise it's really difficult to understand the research program and why we changed actually our approach from the traditional approach that is taken to tackle irrational fears. |
| 1:31.3 | For fear and anxiety disorders and also post-traumatic stress disorder, |
| 1:36.3 | cognitive behavior therapy is the most effective treatment. |
| 1:41.3 | And even though it is effective, there are also many patients that do not |
| 1:45.7 | profit from the treatment but it the yeah the but is really a problem is the high |
| 1:53.6 | relapse rate so even after successful treatment there are many patients |
| 1:58.1 | that yeah show a relapse. |
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