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science of forgetting
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Long-term memories
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altered and then it is stored again
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aren't fixed in a permanent form once they're filed away in the brain
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ramps up the memory-processing machinery
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supercritical or meaningful or scary
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stress hormones alert the amygdala, the brain's emotional control center
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The original memory? No longer there.
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superhappy sticky stuff is fun
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cognitive behavioral therapy
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isn't wildly successful
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drops to one third
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improve by only about 50 percent
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but every time they were recalled?
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what if memories were consolidated not just once,
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original memory could be changed and "reconsolidated"?
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Researchers first proposed reconsolidation in the late 1960s
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our remembrance of a single experience lands like confetti in the brain
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dry facts
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appear to lodge in the hippocampus
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emotional trauma of that same event
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seem to be housed in the amygdala
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both parts emerge together
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People cherish their memories, even their bad memories
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they want to recall them with less pain
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removing memory gets into dangerous territory
