I was reading up on Selective Memory Loss (SML). I came accross this article. It is so cool can! The illness is called Lacunar Amnesia another name for Episodic Amnesia. I want to get this illness.
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Lacunar amnesia is the loss of memory about one specific event. It is a type of amnesia that leaves a lacuna (a gap) in the record of memory.Scientists believe memories are captured and stored by two separate parts of the brain, the hippocampus, the normal seat of memory, and the amygdala, one of the brain's emotional centers.
People incapable of forming long-term memories thanks to hippocampus damage can still form subconscious memories of traumatic events if their amygdala is intact. That means, if both the hippocampus and amygdala is damage, there will be a total loss in memory in that particular event.
Some scientists now believe that memories effectively get rewritten every time they're activated.
Studies on rats suggest that if you block a crucial chemical process during the execution of a learned behavior - pushing a lever to get food, for instance - the learned behavior disappears. The rat stops remembering.
Theoretically, if you could block that chemical reaction in a human brain while triggering a specific memory, you could make a targeted erasure. Think of a dreadful fight with your girlfriend while blocking that chemical reaction, and zap! The memory's gone.
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I seriously want this thing. It is an illness which allows you to forget about one particular person totally. I want this to happen. Where can I find this scientist? I want to forget about someone.
Like that, I need not use a bottle to hit my head. All I have is to swallow chemical. LOL! =D
I offer to be an experiment. I don't mind. Even if I end up dying, at least I did the science field proud! =D If success, I can forget what I want to forget. If someone makes me very sad, ZAP and then forget already. Wa seh!
I want to get this illness!! PLEASE!! I am going to hunt the scientist down.