How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist's Quest to Alter the Past - Hardcover

Susumu Tonegawa won a Nobel Prize for discovering the physical location of memory. This book asks what happens when you can edit those neural patterns without erasing them.

Tonegawa's lab has shown that you can target a specific memory in a mouse brain (a bad association, a trauma response) and modify it without destroying the memory itself. The science is real. The implications are staggering. What does it mean to rewrite your past without forgetting it happened.

Neuroscientists, psychologists, and clinicians working in trauma and PTSD read this for the technical breakthrough. Philosophers read it for the ethical questions it raises. Faculty in medical schools assign it to spark arguments about whether fixing memory is healing or erasing.

DETAILS
- Hardcover
- Neuroscience, memory, cognitive science, medical ethics