I heard from someone (not a reliable source) that not all anesthesia is to numb the pain, some (for example those which put u to sleep during an operation/surgery) make u/yr brain forget u felt it. So they kinda delete it.
So the questions:
1.) Is that true;
2.)If it is, theoretically, can we decide which memories to delete (or doctors);
2.) If we can, or can’t. Can we use them on people that have trauma, for example we can delete all.
3.) Can it cause amnesia if doctors overdose.
U don’t have to answer to all of them, u can do 1/2/3.) *answer.
In: 1
1. It’s partially true. Some anesthetics numb pain and others actually put you in essentially a medically unconscious state. Other medications do interfere with memory formation so you “forget” feeling pain, but these aren’t used by themselves. They’re typically used with a general anesthetic that makes you unconscious, and when you’re unconscious, you aren’t experiencing pain anyway.
2. No, you cannot selectively erase memories or selectively prevent memory formation for specific events.
The first is true. There is a commonly used drug called Versed (pronounced ver-said). It is used as an alternative to opiate based pain relief. It is a sedative that makes you sleepy and basically causes amnesia from the time it’s given until you wake up. So it will knock you out like morphine without the problem of tanking the respiratory drive like morphine or fentanyl.
For 2&3, I don’t think it works that way. Not in a targeted controlled approach.
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