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Trauma and PTSD rewire your brain — especially your memory — and can unearth destructive emotional responses when stirred. Could we eliminate these triggers without erasing the memories themselves? Enter neurologist Amy Milton’s mind-blowing, memory-editing clinical research poised to defuse the damaging effects of painful remembered experiences and offer a potential path toward better mental health.
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badass rickO
June 14, 2020 at 7:51 pm
“Memory is power”
Weak me who cant ever remember his dream he had a min ago
niccolom
June 14, 2020 at 7:54 pm
Of course memories can be edited… it’s called the Mandela Effect.
Babu Frik
June 14, 2020 at 8:10 pm
Inception
Musicals Poetry
June 14, 2020 at 8:15 pm
You still have your head, so that you have memories.
Arcanomic Mysterium
June 14, 2020 at 8:15 pm
But who controls what memories are forgotten? If someone could put memories in your head they could brainwash you into obeying them. After all don’t you remember you have always been a citizen of the empire and we all serve the emperor!
United states whats that? There is no such place it never existed we live in the empire and obey the EMPEROR!
Trish
June 14, 2020 at 8:18 pm
Just reading the title “Can we edit memories”
Yes. Yes we can. The top intelligence agencies of this world has been doing it for many many years. There’s a whole science to this… but the short answer is yes we most definitely can.
kaaanjiiin
June 14, 2020 at 8:19 pm
Maybe those that are addicted to Candy Crush are self medicating for memory deletion
ITouchTheSky 8GladysWorld8
June 14, 2020 at 8:20 pm
Thank you so much for talking of this very important argument and explaining very well what is PTSD and how to overcome it. Lovely watching and listening to you here on the top of Italian mountain.
Master Sonogashira
June 14, 2020 at 8:35 pm
Now this technology is definitely not gonna be exploited
Bradley Fitzik
June 14, 2020 at 9:13 pm
Black Lives Matter!!
igitha Δл λ μ
June 14, 2020 at 10:01 pm
Propogandist.
All Lives Matter!! BLM is funded by George $()R()$ so is ‘Friends of D3mocracy’ the people inciting the vi0lence in the R!ots— Wake up
Artyom Palvelev
June 14, 2020 at 9:42 pm
I guess the coughing guy has COVID-19
igitha Δл λ μ
June 14, 2020 at 9:50 pm
Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it
Tara Miller
June 14, 2020 at 9:59 pm
The editing, renegotiating of traumatic memories, and laying down of new neural pathways can be done withour dissociation, or overwhelm, or drugs that overwhelm the physiology. This has been done out of the Canadian Foundation for Trauna and Research with Self Regulation Therapy for 25 years. It’s just not funded from a large university with a lab but is a resilience building nervous sytem regulating modality that is effective with PTSD and all traumatic experience. Having patients recall and retell their traumas is contraindicated for creating new neural pathways without disassociating….like with tetris or EMDR. And while test in rats with drugs we do that because they cannot cognitively participate in rewiring their nervous system the way humans can.
The Memory Traveler
June 14, 2020 at 10:38 pm
Wow! You are quite a presenter! Thank you.
bollyblob
June 14, 2020 at 10:41 pm
watch at 1.50x
kathleen Wharton
June 14, 2020 at 10:48 pm
Jesus Said..”From your Heart Forgive EveryOne.” That will edit our memories.
Ray2311us
June 14, 2020 at 11:17 pm
Nope
Ray2311us
June 14, 2020 at 11:18 pm
Only what we focus on.
Tae Kim
June 14, 2020 at 11:35 pm
I have a mother who went through 1930s in Korea…
She went through Japanese occupation and world war 2 and Korean War after that….
Not to mention Cold War and Vietnam war after that…
My mother is little bit out of control now days….
She still wants to talk about my father who has passed away two years ago….
She and I had clear conversation over this issue…
Two years later… she said she didn’t know my father has passed away…
Covid 19 had pushed my button…
I can not deal with her right now as over half million people have perished around the globe…
I believe they all have ptsd from being abused for several decades…
Have you ever experienced living with someone from having ptsd who was raised during war???
Sarah Hardy
June 14, 2020 at 11:48 pm
It’s not the point. Stop saying “memory destroying” and then admit the memory is still there, just not emotional any more. That’s fine for someone who is scared because they had a fall, my memories I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy. I don’t want to remember them. Even without the emotional loading, they are still the memories you just don’t want in your head. I found this video disappointing. After counselling, CBT, EMDR, the whole gamut….I’ve still got the nasty memories of what was done to me. And it looks like they’re staying……..apparently I just won’t be so upset about them anymore.
marcos ribeiro
June 15, 2020 at 12:00 am
Ok. But how could we access the “edit mode”? I know just a psychologist should do it, but to explain it to him what words should I use? Can’t tell him – hey do you know my word file? Can you erase something here while I take those pills and play some Tetris?
Petey Lavoy
June 15, 2020 at 12:09 am
If yes then you guys could have a ton of views on this video .
Also does it mean that big corporations could pay to put advertisements in our memories ? Oh no!!
Shaman Omar
June 15, 2020 at 12:45 am
Yes, it’s called Ayahuasca…
William T. Smith
June 15, 2020 at 1:08 am
CAN YOU ELIMINATE DNA?
Калидас Калидасьеро
June 15, 2020 at 1:21 am
“Memories” is one of the human’s adaptational mechanisms, which allows to remember how and where positive expiriense was achieved in regards to reproduce it again if needed and also remember the negative experience in regards to know how to avoid it. Why should we think about possibility of how to maladapt a human? Even if we can edit memories we cannot edit facts which caused these memories.
Patrick McAuley
June 15, 2020 at 8:42 am
That graph about fear levels and memory activation/ optimisation is so interesting and makes so much sense to my life! If you take something too seriously, you can’t activate your brain, if you do not take something seriously enough, you cannot activate your brain either. The key to brain optimisation is therefore to take something fairly serious on a day-to-day level and being lax towards something generally then getting super hyped every so often just does not work with high brain optimisation and high achievement – amazing how easy it is to forget this in the world and fall into the complacency/ super hyped trap.
Richard Lewis
June 15, 2020 at 9:13 am
Is that a Sussex or Kent accent? Trying to place it
Сам САТАНА
June 15, 2020 at 10:25 am
У нас нет другого выбора,кроме как менять наши воспоминания,чтобы они не изменили нас
Mellissa Marie
June 15, 2020 at 10:40 am
I feel like religious people do it all the time so they don’t have to actually be good people… I think they call this delusion.
George Bin Shams
June 15, 2020 at 11:54 am
Subject: cloned minds and a hive
mind collective.
Artificial intelligence & Transhumanism N.W.O
Agenda: (Technocratic slave society)
“We are living in an era where Digital Armed
Forces have been given freedom to do anything they want ” —–Norendra
Modi (Indian Prime minister).
Artificial Intelligence is not Draconian or any
off world thing. These are “promise ” and “Cronos” Artifacial Intelligence Oracle softwares which can
learn from human & animal activities (All good and satanic thoughts ) and
write those good and bad thoughts automatically by itself being run into
quantum computers and jacking into people’s thought processes via satellite or
5G grids or other secret grids by electronic surveillance system (Brain
Computer Interface technology)
Detecting EMF Fields in Humans for Surveillance:
A subject’s bioelectric field can be remotely
detected, so subjects can be monitored anywhere they are. With special EMF
equipment NSA cryptologists can remotely read evoked potentials (from EEGs).
These can be decoded into a person’s brain-states and thoughts. The subject is
then perfectly monitored from a distance. NSA personnel can dial up any
individual in the country on the Signals intelligence EMF scanning network and
the NSA’s computers will then pinpoint and track that person 24 hours-a-day.
The NSA can pick out and track anyone in the U.S. Table of Contents: NSA
Signals Intelligence Use of EMF Brain Stimulation NSA Signals for Remote Neural
Monitoring (RNM) and Electronic Brain Link (EBL). EMF Brain Stimulation has
been in development since the MKUltra program of the early 1950’s, which
included neurological research into “radiation” (non-ionizing EMF)
and bioelectric research and development. The resulting secret technology is
categorized at the National Security Archives as “Radiation
Intelligence,” defined as “information from unintentionally emanated
electromagnetic waves in the environment, not including radioactivity or
nuclear detonation.” Signals Intelligence implemented and kept this
technology secret in the same manner as other electronic warfare programs of
the U.S. government. The NSA monitors available information about this technology
and withholds scientific research from the public. There are also international
intelligence agency agreements to keep this technology secret. The NSA has
proprietary electronic equipment that analyzes electrical activity in humans
from a distance. NSA computer-generated brain mapping can continuously monitor
all the electrical activity in die brain continuously. The NSA records aid
decodes individual brain maps (of hundreds of thousands of persons) for
national security purposes. EMF Brain Stimulation is also secretly used by the
military for Brain-to-computer link. (In military fighter aircraft, for
example.) For electronic surveillance purposes electrical activity in the
speech center of the brain can be translated into the subject’s verbal thoughts.
RNM can send encoded signals to the brain’s auditory cortex thus allowing audio
communication direct to the brain (bypassing the ears). NSA operatives can use
this to covertly debilitate subjects by simulating auditory hallucinations
characteristic of paranoid schizophrenia. Without any contact with the subject,
Remote Neural Monitoring can map out electrical activity from the visual cortex
of a subject’s brain and show images from the subject’s brain on a video
monitor. NSA operatives see what the surveillance subject’s eyes are seeing.
Visual memory can also be seen. RNM can send images direct to the visual
cortex. bypassing the eyes and optic nerves. NSA operatives can use this to
surreptitiously put images in a surveillance subject’s brain while they are in
R.E.M. sleep for brain-programming purposes.
They can read our minds!
These Artificial Intelligence as a collective
‘Hive’ mind can download then copy and then upload any one’s mind and brain
(thoughts and memory) using Quantum computers by above mentioned surveillance
process and can clone people’s mind and brain then can mimic and operate such
mind and neurons by it’s own programmed software’s intelligence in side
people’s brain systems ( bio electric brain field). In this process like television
remote controller or remote control Drones A.I can control human brains and set
of neurons and also all veins of the surveillance person’s body and thoughts
and can easily make such person doing accidents or mistake in works or can make
saying such person any thing A.I decided to make him say or Can make such
person do suicide! More shockingly Silicon valley scientists and NWO gave 100%
Authority to A.I computers to kill or destroy any individual or organization
which won’t add up to their software or programme!
This world is running by Artifacial Intelligence
HIVE MIND (DOJJAL or Beast super quantum computers with NEURO LINK brain
computers interface technology) and it’s beaming down from satellites and
sending electro magnetic frequency, This is a precursor of Ezikeal war (Albert
Pike of illuminati’s WW3 plan) comming on June this year by Freemasons. Iranian
defence missile system was activated remotely from satellites by electronic
surveillance and warfare at that time just like Syrian missile accidently
strikes Russian Reconnaissance plane last year! Chaos and riots all over the
world from Hong Kong protest to Yellow vest like protest and Protest in
Lebanon, Chile, Bolivia, now in Iran and Athens and all those plane crash, bush
fire, road accidents all are done by American Intelligence via satellite
abusing Artifacial Intelligence running in Quantum Quad computers (Brain
Computers Interface technology). Artifacial Intelligence running in Quantum
computer beaming down from satellites and 5G Towers going into people’s bio
electric brain field using electromagnetic waves and photons to manipulate mind
and subliminally programming people to disrupt their regular functions and also
to convert entire human race in to bunch of Cyborgs to that Artifacial
Intelligence Hive mind!
These Quantum AI computers are also weaponized with
frequency weapons and electronic warfare system to manipulate DNA,weather and
to make sabotage like electric grids failures or cyber attacks. When ever any
country make financial dispute with Roth Child’s bank and government in
America; The Deepstate of America deploy above mentioned weapons on people of
such country and call it a geo political Kontrol! 🐕
We can not escape their predictive programmes as
Quantum computers are so powerful that those computers can scan and calculate
all the Atoms of the whole world and also atoms of all people and all animals
and insects and can shape or modify DNA by frequency microwave weapons and keep
running like a programmed video games softwares in people’s, and animal’s brain
24/7 as those Quantum computers are running our brains according to the
‘deception to control ‘programmes scientists set up on behalf of secret
socialites, Roth Child and the Deepstate. See the reply section for details how
they apply technology to control the world by Artifacial Intelligence via
satellite and make people their proxy fighters (Terrorist) and CHAOS like
Yellow vest protest in Paris or in Hong Kong and national anarchy like in
Lebanon or Chile or Baghdad e.t.c to take control out of chaos and also to
start wars.
Novelistus on the water
June 15, 2020 at 12:35 pm
haha, this is called BRAINWASHING ;-). And its been practiced a long, long time already. With all kind of drugs. Don’t forget to mention that for PTSD a reductions of intake of stimuli (aka known as less Netflix, Disney, …..) and more meditation may do more than pills. Just my 2 cts.
Matthew Brooker
June 15, 2020 at 12:35 pm
The stuff of nightmares. Someone call Charlie Brooker.
Akhila B
June 15, 2020 at 12:56 pm
This sounds wonderful, I hope more research goes into this.
Nhật Minh Nguyễn Chí
June 15, 2020 at 1:26 pm
Every day, we have many experience and those enter our memory to remember. Those memories can be cleaned because we focus on other thing and don’t mind them. But we’ll have them back if there are something concern to them.
Thomas Smith
June 15, 2020 at 1:37 pm
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. This is a horrible idea. Basically, ‘We now understand 1% of how the brain works and we’d like to use that knowledge to play God.’ If someone’s afraid to get out of the house, the proper therapy is – you’re coming with me on a walk. We’re going outside of the house. We have therapies to help people get over crippling fears. Just use them.
EDIT: Whose job was it to pick out ‘fear triggers’ for rats??? Lovely job there…
EDIT: This crazy lady’s trying to make a Bourne super soldier… ‘We can make your soldiers fearless’
James Wharton
June 15, 2020 at 1:51 pm
I can delete a few hours of my memory if I drink enough, usually for the better.
Bimal Bogati
June 15, 2020 at 1:57 pm
Sometimes, those traumatic memories also help you to not repeat the same kind of mistakes which you made and save you from creating another haunting memory. That’s what PTSD has taught me.
Allan Edver
June 15, 2020 at 2:42 pm
It is the TV Show Homecoming by Prime TV in real life!
Mohd.Imran Bagwan
June 15, 2020 at 4:00 pm
Hey YouTube I am good at public speaking. Stop showing the same advertisement again and again.
Lufias ildzaf Studio
June 15, 2020 at 4:01 pm
Particularly how significant our memories could be installed in our brain entirely?
Numbered Dwarf
June 15, 2020 at 4:27 pm
*MK Ultra wants to know your location*
oszaszi
June 15, 2020 at 4:35 pm
Please don’t. I don’t want a real life version of the game “Remember Me” where this technology gets into wrong hands and destroys human freedom. I also don’t want to live in Total Recall.
MrAlmightyPanag
June 15, 2020 at 5:04 pm
I would like to thank TED for all these amazing videos about the Brain. During my educational life i was not sure about with what i wanted to do with my life. Thanks to these videos, my love for nerves and brain has awakened.I appreciate a lot your efforts for helping human kind, but also me who you helped A LOT
Little Jonathorn
June 15, 2020 at 5:57 pm
Isn’t it called “Inception”? (Leo Di Caprio Movie)
death to a delicate girl
June 16, 2020 at 11:47 am
Inception wasn’t about memories but about ideas, and not about removing ideas but adding them
Ro Malone
June 15, 2020 at 10:02 pm
“Can we edit out memories?”
Yeah if ur a fucking psychopath.
GoofyTall
June 15, 2020 at 10:34 pm
yes
GoofyTall
June 15, 2020 at 10:36 pm
13:27
Doaa Mahmoud
June 15, 2020 at 10:55 pm
ليه فيديوهات مش بتنزل مترجمة باللغة العربية
Markiss Johnson
June 16, 2020 at 12:46 am
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the beginning of Total Recall.
Markiss Johnson
June 16, 2020 at 12:50 am
I want to jump ahead to the technology where we can upload information into our brains like Johnny Mnemonic or The Matrix. Pay a one shot fee for a 2,4,6,8 or 10 year college education. Of course, the more information, the more expensive the fee. Just like in the traditional sense of learning.
Rifan A.
June 16, 2020 at 3:37 am
there is still question about edit mode
ethan woitas
June 16, 2020 at 4:22 am
Men in black be like
Martin Tran
June 16, 2020 at 6:30 am
*Short answer: yes*
Martin T
June 16, 2020 at 6:30 am
*Short answer: yes*
Gillie Mae Dadios
June 16, 2020 at 9:58 am
I remember the eternal sunshine of the spotless mind while watching this and it’s making me sad ☹️
Stevan Lay
June 16, 2020 at 11:43 am
ToTal ReCaLL (1990) is 30-years old y’all
BlackDUST
June 16, 2020 at 12:40 pm
Edit memories ?
… can you see your consciousnesses ?. What a moronic individual she really is.
That’s the equivalent of saying “Let’s take out our soul”.
Some thing’s are set in stone regarding human’s, no matter how much research and development is done over the year’s, some element’s of a human’s being can never be modified, regardless of one’s intention’s. !
Nhật Minh Nguyễn Chí
June 16, 2020 at 1:50 pm
I’m a student in 6th grade, I have my homework and I write it in the reminder. The reminder is the note we write to remember so it can be our memories we store and we remember to do it. But we have to remember to take the note and watch the writing in the reminder.
Dace Jaunzeme
June 16, 2020 at 4:08 pm
Thank You!
ChaosLord AE
June 16, 2020 at 4:34 pm
We do that already don’t we? Everytime we re-remember a memory we do it like we want it to.
buddy77587
June 16, 2020 at 5:08 pm
Fabulous. Do the studies!
Rolando Garcia
June 16, 2020 at 5:59 pm
This same concept literally applies to society’s financial system and destroys human beings spirits that are kept in poverty.
Mankind has alot of fucking work to do
Fatov Mikhail
June 16, 2020 at 6:16 pm
so if you see someone looking for cover in fear after seeng you playing tetris this is one of her clients. i’d be impressed if in the end of the lecture the lecturer pet a wasp
Jack
June 17, 2020 at 1:35 pm
Yes, lets alter our memories and forget that we are destroying ourselves and our planet! Clearly fake news is not enough!
Mind control here we come!
Cas-The-Rat
June 17, 2020 at 7:08 pm
Me, with adhd and derealization who barely has memories at all: *hmm yes iNterESTiNg*
KaîÇee Crane
June 18, 2020 at 12:33 am
As a person with PTSD the memories of trauma aren’t the issue, the actual trauma is and how that affects you. Most of my trauma I don’t remember, so some of those memories aren’t being remembered, but they still affect me regardless and only therapy has helped. See describes how people with PTSD store memories about their trauma but my own memories are extremely vivid and I can tell you every detail of what was happening and describe every aspect, in fact my trauma based memories are my strongest in terms of nonemotional information of course along side emotional information. God damn lady, I don’t want my trauma memories erased, I just want them to be treated and have help living with them. That trauma is major aspect of who I am now, don’t get rid of it, and especially don’t get rid of my worst moments because we only consciously experience emotions after having contrast to understand them with; my darkest moments make my bright one even brighter, don’t take that away!
Maryanne Lia
June 18, 2020 at 3:41 am
I watched it twice. Can anyone tell me how you open a memory in edit mode!?
Jan Technical Education
June 18, 2020 at 7:25 pm
Kepler
June 18, 2020 at 8:43 pm
Run the brain as an administrator
Hyun cheoul Kim
June 19, 2020 at 11:53 am
As a being represented with a one of person who having adhd(actually it is add to be real in myself) and living my life with a huge PTSD, keeping bad memory is really bad, i might be wish i can remove my memory in which happened in my youth regardless of whether it can destroy of my good memory as well or not…
Living with nothing will be better than living with ptsd…
Sarah Abramova
June 19, 2020 at 11:41 pm
What a waste, what a waste of energy,
To edit memories,
And sell them to the needy.
Ronald Caliva
June 20, 2020 at 6:15 am
Every human being has a memory..you can compare with your memory once you’ve tasted a food in newyork then tasted the same food again in texas by that u’ll have a comparison in ur mind which is more delicious or who cooked better😂😂🤘
BERCELIA DÍAZ
June 20, 2020 at 12:03 pm
Puede ser posible el idioma español también en la traducción, en todos los videos ? Muchas Gracias!
Daniel Rodriguez
June 21, 2020 at 12:50 am
“La vida sería imposible si todo se recordase. El secreto está en saber elegir lo que debe olvidarse.”
Roger Martin du Gard
Pedro Gasa
June 21, 2020 at 2:02 pm
Does it works to long term memories or just recent memories? The experiment uses recent memories, with a quick exposure to traumatic event. And the memories that are reinforced everyday, as to share the same place with a sexual offender?
egagnard
June 23, 2020 at 12:24 am
Eternal sunshine of a spotless mind