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title: Memory Erasure
type: technology
url: "https://www.envisioning.com/research/cortex/memory-erasure"
hub: cortex
summary: Therapeutic techniques to weaken or remove specific traumatic memories
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# Memory Erasure

Therapeutic techniques to weaken or remove specific traumatic memories
- Technology Readiness Level: 3/9
- Impact: 5/5
- Investment: 3/5
Memory erasure or modulation would reduce or eliminate specific memories—e.g., for PTSD treatment. Hypothetical, research. Applications: treatment of post-traumatic stress. Significant ethical and identity questions. Research continues into reconsolidation blockade and neurobiological mechanisms.

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Source: Envisioning — Technology Research Institute (https://www.envisioning.com/research/cortex/memory-erasure)