Kind Clinics
in the media
The investigation into Memrec has led to several scientific publications. Also the mainstream media regularly pay attention to the Memrec method.
Seen on television
The videos contain footage of treatments and can also be viewed on our Youtube Channel.
Op1
In August 2022, current affairs program Op1 paid attention to wasp phobia. Relevant, given the large amount of wasps this year.
Maartje Kroese explains how the Memrec method for wasp phobia works, and shows the special wasp box.
Youth news
The Youth News was at Kindt Clinics to talk about the spider season. Why are so many people afraid of spiders, and how can we prevent children from developing a spider phobia?
EenVandaag (news program)
On February 28, 2019, EenVandaag broadcast an item about Kindt Clinics and the Memrec method. We look at the treatment of Gwen, a 32-year-old woman from Amsterdam with a spider phobia.
NB Every treatment is different; touching a spider is often not necessary.
The future is fantastic (VPRO)
In 2020, the VPRO made a series about visionary scientists and thinkers of today, and interviewed Merel Kindt for this.
They also filmed Sophie's treatment at Kindt Clinics, who overcame her fear of needles.
The Perfect Human (VPRO)
Science program The Perfect Human focused on the theory and ethics of scientific developments.
Part of an episode was about the effect of the Memrec method on people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Podcasts
Merel Kindt and Kindt Clinics in the written media
Merel Kindt's research and the treatments at Kindt Clinics regularly receive press attention. Below are several articles (English and Dutch) that have appeared in recent years.
The New Republic
2016: 'The Cure For Fear.' Translation 'A medicine for anxiety' in 360 magazine.
Documentary A Cure For Fear
Lana Wilson, documentary maker for National Geographic, among others, made a documentary about the Memrec method. She filmed various treatments and spoke extensively with Merel Kindt. Thanks to producer Topic the documentary can be watched online for free. The documentary consists of 4 parts of XNUMX minutes each.
Read the interviews with the people that participated in the documentary >>
Note: the documentary contains images of butterflies, mice, spiders and needles.
Kindt Clinics in the Nature of Things (CBC)
The Canadian documentary program The Nature of Things (CBC) was in Amsterdam last year to interview Merel Kindt and to film a number of treatments. In this episode you can see clips of Eva's fear of heights treatment and Mirjam's chicken phobia treatment.
Scientific articles
Below is a selection of scientific publications about the Memrec method (memory reconsolidation) and the work of Prof. Dr. Merel Kindt and colleagues:
- Kindt, M. & Soeter, M. (2018). Pharmacologically induced amnesia for learned fear is time and sleep dependent. Nature Communications, 9,1316
- Kindt, M. (2017). The surprising subtleties of changing fear memory: a challenge for translational science. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 373: 20170033.
- Soeter, M., & Kindt, M. (2015). An abrupt transformation of phobic behavior following a post-retrieval amnesic agent. Biological Psychiatry, 78, 880-886.
- Sevenster, D., Beckers, T. & Kindt, M. (2013). Prediction error governs pharmacologically induced amnesia for learned fear. Science, 339, 830-833.
- Soeter, M., & Kindt, M. (2012). Stimulation of the noradrenergic system during memory formation impairs extinction learning but not the disruption of reconsolidation. Neuropsychopharmacology, 37, 1204-1215
- Kindt, M., Soeter, M., & Vervliet, B. (2009). Beyond extinction: Erasing human fear responses and preventing the return of fear. Nature Neuroscience, 12, 256-258.
