However, in the society depicted in ESSM people have access to immediate relief of their problem memories, eradicating both the declarative memories and emotional responses these memories trigger. In healthy adults, memories fade and the emotional response is dampened over time. As in PTSD, the problem is not necessarily the memory itself, but the emotional response associated with its recall (Evars, 2007). Although this is not severe enough to trigger PTSD in most people, it is still a distressing event for which the sufferers experience pain each time they remember the person. Mierzwaik’s care have gone through the trauma of losing the one they loved through a break-up. In ESSM, most of the patients who seek Dr. Although Beta-blockers appear to be successful at dissociating the fear response from a conditioned stimuli, this type of drug may not be effective in dissociating the types of emotional trauma associated with loss or grief, (Soeter & Kindt, 2010) as seen in the movie. Much of the research surrounding beta-blockers has implicated their potential for patients who experience post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This decouples the emotional response from the memory over time, lessening the fear but leaving the recall of the memory intact. They work by blocking the noradrenergic response during recall. Propanolol) invoke the closest process for dampening the stress response associated with a fear-based memory. Real world memory altering drugs called Beta-blockers (e.g. Mierzwaik’s procedure is designed to eliminate or destroy the memory, preventing it from future recall. Rather than manipulating or influencing how a memory might be recalled, as often studied in reconsolidation theory, Dr. This serves as recall of the memory, and it is during the unstable state of recall that the memory is erased. While asleep, each “problem memory” is triggered and his patients remember the event as if in a dream state, reliving the experience within his or her own memory. Mierzwaik’s procedure theoretically attacks multiple memory systems simultaneously to remove both declarative memories and the amygdala based emotional memories associated with them. Mierzwaik, the founder of Lacuna, uses his memory erasure procedure to eradicate the “emotional core” of a memory upon forced recall of specific declarative events, “…and when you eradicate that core, you begin the degradation process”.
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