Working at Scientific American , known for its spiffy technical illustrations, I always look for material that can show what an article is trying to tell. I’ve never found a better example than this video(below) of a rat fed a drug that wipes out its long-term memory, and which bears a real-life resemblance to the scenario depicted in “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.” The opening paragraphs of the article by Jerry Adler, called “ Erasing Painful Memories .” serves as a running narrative to the video. I’ve included them here:
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