neuroscience

  • Will There Ever Be a ‘Cure’ for Addiction?

    Will There Ever Be a ‘Cure’ for Addiction?

    Up top we should note that there are many different kinds of addiction, and many different kinds of people, and many complicated and contradictory theories re: addiction’s psychological/physiological mechanisms. There are various approaches to treating addiction as well. Proponents of a “harm reduction” strategy aren’t necessarily interested in reducing people’s drug use, for instance, but…


  • Will We Ever Be Able to Edit or Delete Memories?

    Will We Ever Be Able to Edit or Delete Memories?

    Impossible even to broach this subject without reference to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, in which an unkempt Jim Carrey enlists a legitimate if shoddily run medical firm to erase the memory of his ex-girlfriend. If that film had a message, it was almost certainly not “erasing memories is good,” but that is not…