Memory Altering Drugs

The future of memory-altering drugs

Michael Cook | 08 September 2011

Give memory-altering drugs a chance, argues the editor of the well-regarded Neuroethics & Law blog. Adam Kolber, of Brooklyn Law School, writes in Nature that drugs could be of immense benefit for people who have experienced traumatic stress, such as rescue workers or victims of assault. The use of memory altering drugs is looking “increasingly promising”.