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What is a memory? Science writer Jonah Lehrer tells us is it’s a physical thing
in the brain… not some ephemeral flash. It’s a concrete thing made of matter.
And NYU neuroscientist Joe LeDoux, who studies fear memories in rats, tells
us how with a one shock, one tone, and one drug injection, you can bust up
this piece of matter, and prevent a rat from every making a memory.
LeDoux’s research goes sci-fi, when he and his colleague Karim Nader start
trying to erase memories. And Nader applies this research to humans
suffering from PTSD.
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