Transient acidosis while retrieving a fear-related memory enhances its lability

Attenuating the strength of fearful memories could benefit people disabled by memories of past trauma. Pavlovian conditioning experiments indicate that a retrieval cue can return a conditioned aversive memory to a labile state. However, means to enhance retrieval and render a memory more labile are...

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Main Authors: Jianyang Du, Margaret P Price, Rebecca J Taugher, Daniel Grigsby, Jamison J Ash, Austin C Stark, Md Zubayer Hossain Saad, Kritika Singh, Juthika Mandal, John A Wemmie, Michael J Welsh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2017-06-01
Series:eLife
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/22564