Jun 5, 2020
Maria Balaet is on the show to talk about the impact of
psychedelics on memory processing, the neuropharmacology of memory,
the interplay of memory and personal consciousness, and the ethics
of memory modulation with psychedelics.
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***Full Topics Breakdown Below***
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Episode Breakdown
- Foundational concepts of memory, brain, and
consciousnesses
- Neural Darwinism
- Memory as an operation of the brain
- Memory is not just about remembering things
- Encoding, consolidation, retrieval (and reconsolidation)
- Implicit vs explicit memory
- Different theories of memory retrieval
- The pharmacological mechanism of memory consolidation
- The malleability of memory over time - how memory is liable to
disruption
- The memory of meaning
- The neurobiology of memory
- The impact of psychedelics on memory processing
- Her research using a ketamine analog to disrupt the
reconsolidation process
- Psychedelics as memory modulators
- How we can use psychedelics therapeutically to change
memory
- Research with ketamine to alter memory cues around
alcoholism
- The dangers of at-home efforts to alter memory resulting in
accidental self-harm
- Psychedelic brainwashing and malicious intent
- Differing psychedelics, different neuropharmacology, different
memory modulation?
- The fleeting memories of DMT, dream recall, and state-dependent
learning
- Is it possible to increase our ability to remember our
psychedelic experiences?
- The role of glutamate in memory and how different psychedelics
pharmacologically change that process (LSD vs ketamine)
- Maria's upcoming research on how people's cognition under
psychedelics compares to the average sober population