Reconditioning the brain to overcome fear

[rangerrebew]

Reconditioning the brain to overcome fear
Researchers have discovered a way to remove specific fears from the brain

Date:
    November 21, 2016
Source:
    University of Cambridge
Summary:
    Researchers have discovered a way to remove specific fears from the brain, using a combination of artificial intelligence and brain scanning technology. Their technique could lead to a new way of treating patients with conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and phobias.
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Scan of brain showing information associated with a fear memory.
Credit: Ai Koizumi

Researchers have discovered a way to remove specific fears from the brain, using a combination of artificial intelligence and brain scanning technology. Their technique, published in the inaugural edition of Nature Human Behaviour, could lead to a new way of treating patients with conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and phobias

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/11/161121175251.htm

[geronl]

Will also be used to create better cold-blooded killers.

[EC]

Will also be used to create better cold-blooded killers.

And this is a problem?

22 veterans a day kill themselves. MOSTLY thanks to PTSD.

So take your sanctimony and shove it up your ass.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

And this is a problem?

22 veterans a day kill themselves. MOSTLY thanks to PTSD.

So take your sanctimony and shove it up your ass.

 


Cranky much?

[geronl]

And this is a problem?

Talk about completely unrelated to what I posted. 

messing with the human mind is going to make things a lot worse

but since it was a personal attack on a fellow TBR member, I'm blocking you.