2021.01.16 Reconsolidation of fear

Also see: Parallels between cerebellum- and amygdala-dependent conditioning

To cite this article: James Elsey & Merel Kindt (2016) Manipulating Human Memory Through Reconsolidation: Ethical Implications of a New Therapeutic Approach, AJOB Neuroscience, 7:4, 225-236, DOI: 10.1080/21507740.2016.1218377

Reconsolidation requires availability of protein to keep a memory available. If anorexia has been found to limit the feeling of fear, restriction will be reinforced as a very desirable technique to control traumatic memory. Happiness with its pleasant feelings will allow normal eating and weight gain but fear will remain easily triggered and probably prove to be detrimental to the ongoing relationship as oxytocin levels drop.

Reactivation of traumatic fear and interference with reconsolidation is documented psycholtherapeutic practice, as noted in the literature on CBT and EMDR.

What is the analogous procedure in the reduction of fear in religious support?

We have first
1. Preparation and expectation of success
2. Review of trauma and reactivation of fear
3. Parallel processing of trauma associated with communal identification of new memories
4. Neurological rewiring of memory, at the amygdala and cerebellum? Which frees up action based functioning from the fight, flight or freeze sympathetic autonomic system.