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The Heart Drug That Steals Memories: How Propranolol Rewrote Fear
The Heart Drug That Steals Memories: How Propranolol Rewrote Fear
Propranolol, a heart tablet taken by silver-medalists and symphony musicians, concentrates in the brain at ratios reported between 15:1 and 33:1 - and that unexpected property may blunt the chemical stamp that makes traumatic memories persist. Could a pill originally meant to calm a failing heart actually erase the fear that defines who we are?
In this episode, we trace the story from a 1960s Scottish lab to Olympic controversy and concert halls, explaining how a drug designed by James W. Black to block adrenaline in the heart…
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