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Montreal-a researcher says he has found a way to take the emotional sting out of a poor resolution due to the "editing" memories with therapy and beta-blocker.

Dr. Alain Brunet has spent more than 15 years of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in collaboration with the combat veterans, people who have experienced terrorist attacks and victims of crime

Much of his research focused on the development of what he called "work hardening therapy", an innovative approach that can help remove the emotional pain of a traumatic Memory .

the core of his work is a modest pharmaceutical - Propranolol , a beta-blocker, a long time for The Treatment of the most common physical ailments such as high blood pressure and migraines, But the research proves it now has a wider application.

The solidification method involves the intake of Propranolol about an hour before a therapy session where the patient is asked to write, the process a detailed report about your trauma And Then you read it out loud.

"Often, when you recall the Memory , if there is Something New to learn, this Memory will unlock and you can update it, and it will be saved again," the Canadian clinical psychologist told the BBC.

the process of hardening creates a "window of opportunity" for the opponent of the very emotional part of the Memory .

"are We to be with this advanced understanding of how memories are formed and how they can be activated and updated and re-stored - in principle, we are to be treated with this, recent findings from the neurosciences, patients," says Dr. Brunet.

His work was often compared to the Science Fiction film Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, where a distant pair erased their memories of each other, although Dr. Brunet notes are memories way after the solidification of the therapy, to do that you simply to hurt to stop.

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memories, your neutral, factual elements to be stored in The Brain , the hippocampus. But the emotional tone of the Memory is stored in his amygdala.

"imagine, you shoot a Film in the old-fashioned way, so you have The Image and the sound, and you will be prohibited on two separate channels," he said.

When a person takes their traumatic Memory , you will Experience both channels. Propranolol helps to channel the emotional aspect of the Memory - inhibition of solidification and suppressed his pain.

A Memory , which is saved under The Influence of drugs, And Then be recalled by The Brain in his new, less emotional version.

Its research suggests that over 70% of patients have relief found in a couple of sessions of work hardening therapy.

Dr. Brunet has, together with other PTSD researchers, including Harvard University , PTSD expert, Dr. Roger Pitman, in the investigation of The Method .

recently he started a program in France in The Wake of the deadly terror attacks In Paris and nice, the training of approximately 200 physicians in therapy to support The Treatment of victims, witnesses and first responders.

So far, over 400 people through the therapy in this country as part of the program have been made.

Dr. Alain Brunet to work with Propranolol found that medication reminders

can affect After success with post-traumatic stress, The Doctor said he wanted to expand the application for treatment.

In the year 2015, along with one of his former doctoral students, Michelle Lonergan, at Mcgill University in Montreal, he turned his attention to the with a broken heart and your "romantic betrayal".

"If you look at the Greek tragedies, what they are? In essence, a betrayal," he says. "It is really The Heart of the human Experience . "

A poor resolution is also extremely painful, he says, and people can feel emotional reactions similar to those seen in trauma survivors.

the patients That you do not suffer recruited for the study, only a mild case of heart pain. There have been cases of infidelity. Some were suddenly abandoned by someone you thought was a loving partner.

they were struggling to cope and were people who "can't turn the page, you can't get Over It ," said Dr. Brunet.

"This is what people do not say that all the time, which is helpful. But [your friends] are showing the Problem . "

Dr. Brunet hopes for The Treatment of phobias and addiction in a similar way

It was, as the patients were "stuck in Groundhog Day ," the 1993 Comedy where Bill Murray character relives the same 2. February day over and over, But have been obsessed, instead, stuck, their painful disappointments in their heads.

What he and Dr. Lonergan found was that, as with PTSD, many of The Heart -pain suffering at the end of a relief felt, some to a single consolidation therapy-session.

After five sessions, if you read aloud, the Memory of her betrayal, they had the "impression that this could have been written by Someone Else - Like reading a novel".

"This treatment of the normal functioning of Memory , how we forget gradually, and turn the page," he says.

His Montreal-based lab is currently recruiting over 60 people who have suffered infidelity or any other form of deception in a relationship for a new consolidation therapy study.

Dr. Brunet is confident in the scope of consolidation therapy can be extended to The Treatment of phobias, addictions, complicated Grief .

"Any kind of emergency that emanates from an emotional event," he says.

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Source of news: bbc.com