# Can we edit memories?

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDxCambridgeUniversity
- Speaker: Amy Milton
- Year: 2019
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Psychology and the brain
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/amy_milton_can_we_edit_memories)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Trauma and PTSD rewire your brain -- especially your memory -- and can unearth destructive emotional responses when stirred. Could we eliminate these triggers without erasing the memories themselves? Enter neurologist Amy Milton's mind-blowing, memory-editing clinical research poised to defuse the damaging effects of painful remembered experiences and offer a potential path toward better mental health.

## Lectures

1. [Can we edit memories?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/amy_milton_can_we_edit_memories/df672a2c3cbb), 16 min (TED's player)