Hrisskar Flat-Foot @hrisskar@qoto.org

🧠 The emotion is executed by the autonomic nervous system in large part — not exclusively but in large part. And that in turn, the body-experience influences our emotions.

🧠 Under normal circumstances memories are made primarily about emotional events.
So, emotion is a great facilitator of memory formation.

🧠 So, every time we remember something, we actually make that memory again. We make the initial memory and then we reconsolidate that memory.

🧠 So, using just that information you can now understand why now some health professionals are treating post traumatic stress disorder by exposing individuals with #PTSD to a trigger in the presence of a beta blocker.

🧠 The beta blocker is preventing the sympathetic arousal, preventing the heart rate increase, and preventing the blood pressure increase.

🧠 So now, you've triggered a memory. But the person can't get all worked up about it — their body is unresponsive. We pharmacologically prevented that arousal.
And consequently now, when they remember it, they reconsolidate it without all that body memory.

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A friend posted this on Instagram because she was horrified and now so am I, so I'm inflicting it on you too. The percentage of people who don't bother to wash their hands after using the toilet is appalling TBQH.

Worth noting too, that this is based on a survey, so these numbers are probably overestimates. Studies in the UK suggest that only a tenth of people who claim to wash their hands actually do!

That does it. I'm moving to Bosnia. Also, I'm never shaking hands in the Netherlands ever again.

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