Propranolol is a betablocker discovered over 25 years ago and has long been prescribed for hypertension and migraine headaches. Propranolol also has a newly discovered property.

It dampens memories.

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McGill University researchers in Montreal are using a common blood pressure drug to make "fixed" bad memories unstable and as pliable as playdough.

The experiments build on a discovery five years ago that recalling an emotionally charged memory returns the memory to a state where it can be tampered with or stopped from "reconsolidating."

When humans take in new information -- whether it's a phone number, or seeing someone killed -- the memory is "labile" at first, or chemically unstable.

But at some point within the next six hours, a flood of proteins produced by the brain moves the memory from short-term to a long-term imprint.

But long-term memories aren't nearly as hardwired as once thought. Scientists now say that if a highly emotional memory is reactivated and those proteins blocked with a drug such as propranolol, it may be possible to stop the memory from being restabilized.

The goal is to, at the very least, dampen down traumatic memories.


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The documents shed light on the CIA's vextensive behavior-control projects, including work by McGill University's Ewen Cameron, who brainwashed patients with agency funding in Montreal. But many records had already been destroyed. Still other files remain locked away to this day.

Mind Control Victims to Have Their Day in Court
“There are about 200 people still due compensation,” he said. “This judgment should send out strong signals to the Canadian government. Those who have previously missed out should have a strong case for appealing.”

Using techniques similar to those portrayed in the celebrated novel the Manchurian Candidate, it was believed that people could be brainwashed and reprogrammed to carry out specific acts.

Cameron developed a range of depatterning “treatments” while director of the Allan Memorial Institute at McGill University.

«L'étude est toujours en cours, souligne de Dr Brunet. On est à la recherche de participants.» (Les personnes intéressées peuvent appeler au 514-761-6131 #2368).

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Propranolol isn't the only memory-muting agent being tested. Another is the antibiotic D-cycloserine, which is being used in conjunction with what's called extinction learning, according to Brunet.

"Let's say you were involved in a bad car accident with a red truck. The colour red will remind you of the car accident. That's fear conditioning. If I present the colour red over and over again, and nothing bad happens, at first it will remind you of your trauma. But eventually it will only very remotely remind you of your trauma. That's extinction learning."