Ellen Barry
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459 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Aug
Ellen Barry’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yes.
She thinks that it has to do with what she called valence, the kind of intensity of the experience, whether it's negative or positive.
Her research, what she's learning?
I think it raises this sort of tantalizing possibility that maybe we could help people hold on to some memories that are just really essential to living.
If you could somehow learn to manipulate that gatekeeping mechanism...
what's happening in the thalamus.
You could move those memories out of the damaged parts of the brain into healthier long-term storage before they're lost.
Even if half of it's gone or 80% of it's gone, if
Does it feel to you like this is moving faster than it ever has, like our understanding is?
I mean, recognizing your family, the people around you, recognizing the place where you are and knowing that you're home or that you're safe.
The kinds of things that at the end of your life, you really want to hold on to.
So I remember walking away from that meeting really shocked.
sort of thrilled.
It was so surprising that there was something so physiological that could kind of explain what we had been through during that time.
And I remember calling my husband and telling him the part of his brain that was injured in the fall, that was the part that creates memories about location and place.
It just... It explains so much.
And I asked, what are you thinking?
And he just...
He said it made him feel sad.
Wait, why did he feel sad?
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