http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/03/03/exposing-the-memory-engine-the-story-of-pkmzeta/ Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:00:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/03/03/exposing-the-memory-engine-the-story-of-pkmzeta/#comment-10891 Filip Fri, 22 Apr 2011 21:45:31 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/?p=3964#comment-10891 I have followed from a distance the overwhelmingly intruiging work of Sacktor and others, and their findings will have a vast impact. As a clinical psychologist with primary focus on posttraumatic stress disorder, I find it quite often that people believe that you get over or recover from an awful event by forgetting it. I become worried, however, when Sacktor, as cited, still contributes to this misunderstanding. Please note that "treating posttraumatic stress disorder in a fundamental way" is achieved by learning to deal with its consequences and master them. According to my algebra, treating does not equate escaping. Thanks for the post. I have followed from a distance the overwhelmingly intruiging work of Sacktor and others, and their findings will have a vast impact. As a clinical psychologist with primary focus on posttraumatic stress disorder, I find it quite often that people believe that you get over or recover from an awful event by forgetting it. I become worried, however, when Sacktor, as cited, still contributes to this misunderstanding. Please note that “treating posttraumatic stress disorder in a fundamental way” is achieved by learning to deal with its consequences and master them. According to my algebra, treating does not equate escaping. Thanks for the post.

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/03/03/exposing-the-memory-engine-the-story-of-pkmzeta/#comment-10890 Stephen Tue, 08 Mar 2011 17:24:54 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/?p=3964#comment-10890 One imagines cramming for a test, and popping a pill so you remember it. But tests are usually for retention of useless facts. Who needs to know when George Washington was born? Would it be more important if it were Elvis? What if tests tested for competence? Then one imagines cramming to gain some competence and popping a pill to retain it. But compentence achieved seems to take longer to forget anyway. So, maybe we don't need a memory pill after all. One imagines cramming for a test, and popping a pill so you remember it. But tests are usually for retention of useless facts. Who needs to know when George Washington was born? Would it be more important if it were Elvis? What if tests tested for competence? Then one imagines cramming to gain some competence and popping a pill to retain it. But compentence achieved seems to take longer to forget anyway. So, maybe we don’t need a memory pill after all.

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