研究人員研製能抹去悲慘記憶的健忘藥英語美文

Researchers are working on an amnesia (健忘症) drug that blocks or s (刪除)bad memories. The drug is used along with therapy to "dampen" memories of trauma (損傷)victims. They treated 19 accident victims for ten days, during which the patients were asked to describe their memories of the traumatic event that had happened 10 years earlier. Some patients were given the drug, which is also used to treat amnesia, while others were given a placebo(安慰劑). A week later, they found that patients given the drug showed fewer signs of stress when recalling their trauma.

A short 1966 science fiction story writes about selectively erasing (抹去)memories: Someone, probably at a government military-sciences lab, erased his conscious memories; all he know was that going to Mars meant something special to him, and so did being a secret agent.

研究人員正在研製一種健忘藥，它可以阻止人們回憶起悲慘經歷或將之從大腦中抹去，這種藥與其他療法一同使用以“削弱”受害者對傷害事件的記憶。研究人員用此藥對19名事故受害者進行了為期10天的治療，患者要描述10年前發生在自己身上的傷害事件。其中一些患者服用了健忘藥，該藥也可以治療健忘症，其他人則服用了無任何療效的安慰劑。一週後，研究者發現服用健忘藥的患者回憶受傷害經歷時表現出的壓力特徵更輕。

1966年出版的一部科幻小説寫的.就是關於如何有選擇地抹去記憶：一些可能在政府的軍事科學實驗室工作的人抹去了主人公的自主記憶;他的全部想法就是登陸火星對他有特殊意義，另外就是成為一名祕密特工。