Ep 12 The Rabies Shot and The Mind Eraser

In this episode we cover:

 

• Scrubs Season 5 Episode 20 “My Lunch”
• The TV show Severance
• The movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Scrubs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrubs_(TV_series)

https://scrubs.fandom.com/wiki/My_Lunch

Organ Donation

https://www.organdonor.gov/learn/process

https://www.organdonor.gov/sign-up/how

Rabies:

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa043018

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/rabies

https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/about/index.html

https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/hcp/clinical-overview/index.html

Health Department Directories:

https://www.cdc.gov/public-health-gateway/php/communications-resources/health-department-directories.html?CDC_AAref_Val=https://www.cdc.gov/publichealthgateway/healthdirectories/index.html

Cocktail:

http://www.idrink.com/v.html?id=47058#google_vignette

 

Severance & Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind - erasing memory to improve function

Mind Eraser Cocktail Recipe 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_Sunshine_of_the_Spotless_Mind  -  2004 Joel (Jim Carey) and Clementine (Kate Winslet) each elect to have memories of each other erased after they breakup - what is the impact of erasing emotional memories - good and bad; are the emotions really erased or just the content of the association - other chars Mary (Kirsten Dunst) and Howard (Tom Wilkinson) and Joel and Clementine finding each other again

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severance_(TV_series) 

Season 1 released 2022 on Apple+, Season 2 2025 Mark (Adam Scott) elects to become a severed employee (medical implant separates work life from home life = Innie vs. Outie) after his wife Gemma dies. Mark wants to figure out what Lumon is up to and why, what happened to former co-worker Petey, and “reintegration” of selves for coworkers Helly, Dylan, and Irving. 

 

Memory - https://www.health.harvard.edu/topics/memory 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK234153/ 

https://qbi.uq.edu.au/memory/where-are-memories-stored#:~:text=Memories%20aren't%20stored%20in,heavily%20on%20the%20prefrontal%20cortex. 

 

Split-brain science - https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/140/5/1231/2951052 

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7305066/#:~:text=Thus%2C%20it%20seems%20that%2