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Targeted memory erasure can aid recovery from depression
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CONTESTED
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confidence 41/100

While theoretical and preclinical models suggest that manipulating memory reconsolidation could help treat psychiatric conditions, clinical trials and meta-analyses investigating memory erasure techniques for disorders like PTSD show mixed or non-significant results compared to standard interventions.

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  • Memory persistence: from fundamental mechanisms to translati · peer-reviewed · supports · weight 1.3 · 2024
  • Targeted memory reactivation during sleep improves emotional · peer-reviewed · supports · weight 1.05 · 2024
  • How Fear Memory is Updated: From Reconsolidation to Extincti · peer-reviewed · supports · weight 1.05 · 2025
  • Erasing "bad memories": reversing aberrant synaptic plastici · peer-reviewed · supports · weight 1.05 · 2025
  • Electroconvulsive Therapy with a Memory Reactivation Interve · peer-reviewed · refutes · weight 1.3 · 2020
  • Updated and rectified meta-analysis shows no effect of propr · peer-reviewed · refutes · weight 1.05 · 2022
Evidence for · 4
Memory persistence: from fundamental mechanisms to translational opportunities.
2024 · cited by 14
This review highlights how disrupting the persistence of maladaptive memories offers translational opportunities for treating psychiatric conditions.
Evidence against · 2
Electroconvulsive Therapy with a Memory Reactivation Intervention for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Randomized Controlled Trial
2020 · cited by 19
A randomized controlled trial pairing electroconvulsive therapy with traumatic memory reactivation found no significant improvement in PTSD symptoms compared to control.
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More for · 3
Targeted memory reactivation during sleep improves emotional memory modulation following imagery rescripting
2024 · cited by 6
Targeted memory reactivation during sleep can successfully alter and improve emotional memory characteristics related to distress.
How Fear Memory is Updated: From Reconsolidation to Extinction?
2025 · cited by 4
The review outlines how understanding fear memory reconsolidation and updating provides potential avenues for erasing maladaptive memories.
Erasing "bad memories": reversing aberrant synaptic plasticity as therapy for neurological and psychiatric disorders.
2025 · cited by 4
Targeting aberrant synaptic plasticity and memory mechanisms is proposed as a disease-modifying strategy for psychiatric disorders.
More against · 1
Updated and rectified meta-analysis shows no effect of propranolol versus placebo on traumatic memory reconsolidation disruption
2022 · cited by 5
A meta-analytic re-analysis indicates that pharmacological interference with memory reconsolidation using propranolol lacks robust efficacy over placebo in clinical trials.
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judged → CONTESTED · 4101 Aug 2026
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