Discover Magazine Article

[Abrasky]

This is interesting
http://discovermagazine.com/2003/mar/cover

 

[Abrasky]

I liked the lady who didn't have any memory, but some other part of her brain, like a back up generator remembered the instinct of the trauma enough for her to avoid it. I wonder if maybe this back up generator also works for positive memories as well like emotional memories. I wonder if during a trauma part of the brain for eg the emotional aspect goes into a coma of sorts and the backup generator kicks in. So people with PTSD perhaps would run the emotions on this second short pathway instead and is why it is hard to concentrate. This second pathway wasn't meant to be run like the primary part so it puts many extra grooves in it to function leading to PTSD. Leading to flashbacks Running on the second pathway wouldn't emotions feel number than the primary pathway of memories in non PTSD people? So there is some feeling there so the loss isn't noticed, but it is not the same.
Just a thought but wouldn't it be really hard to run on a backup generator that only takes a skeleton snapshot of things. That was my question with this article.