According to a leading neurologist, a groundbreaking new strategy for targeting and erasing painful memories has caused “massive ethical issues” because it threatens to transform a person’s personality artificially.
DecNef, or decoded neurofeedback, is a memory-editing technique that was developed for the treatment of PTSD.
It measures different changes in the brain, such as the amount of oxygen in the blood, using an electromagnet similar to that used in an MRI scanner.
The data from the scanner is sent in real time to an artificially intelligent imagine learning agent, the maps which parts of the brain are involved when those memories are triggered.
