CTV - Has science found a way to ease traumatic memories?
A soldier shocked by the horrors of war can return home to find he or she can't stop the memories from flooding back in flashbacks that make it impossible to sleep and function. But what if there were a way to dull those memories?
Not delete the memory completely, like in the film "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind." But somehow tone down the intense emotions that sufferers of post-traumatic stress disorder typically feel whenever they relive their trauma. That's the promise of research being carried out by Canadian neurosciences phenom Dr. Karim Nader, at Montreal's Ï㽶ÊÓƵ.
Nader, once named by Forbes as one of the "Ten People Who Could Change The World," has helped pioneer research on medication that can help strip traumatic memories of their power. It fact, it was his research along with colleagues at Harvard that inspired the "Spotless Mind" script.