HTTP:: Coercive Interrogation Destroys Memories
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As evidenced countless times in jails around the world, including the US-operated Guantanamo Bay prison, in Cuba, torture has not yet been completely removed from common practice, when it comes to interrogating prisoners. During the Bush administration, torture was used extensively to collect data from so-called terrorist suspects, which have, to this day, to be charged with anything. Among these techniques, waterboarding is the most common, as evidenced by reports by the US Army. However, psychologists demonstrated recently that torture did not aid jailers in collecting the data they needed. According to a new scientific paper published by Cell Press in the September 21st issue of the journal Trends in Cognitive Science, it would appear that hardcore methods of extracting information may play a larger role in degrading and destroying the memories, than in retrieving them. The experts demonstrate that repetitive and extreme stress applied to the brain actually damages the !
brain tissue, and impairs the cognitive mechanisms that are related to memory formation and storage, as well as to other neural functions, e! Science News reports. Documents revealed by the US Department of Justice in April 2009 have shown some of the cruel and inhumane methods of “interrogation†the US Army, still led by conserva...
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