THE CURE TO PTSD?

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PTSD

• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Caused by haunting memories
• Ex. Memories of war, death of
• a loved one
• No known medical cure besides therapy

MEMORY RECONSOLIDATION

• The process of changing memories
• After memories are formed and stored,
• they can be retrieved
• In other words, when a memory is activated
• it is open to modification

HOW DOES THIS CURE PTSD?

Memory reconsolidation allows the removal or modification of unwanted memories.
This takes us one step closer to fully harnessing reconsolidation in psychotherapy

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