Treatment of fear memories: interactions between extinction and reconsolidation

Treatment of fear memories: interactions between extinction and reconsolidation

Retrieval labilizes memory traces and these gates two protein synthesis-dependent processes in the brain: extinction, which inhibits further retrieval, and reconsolidation, which may enhance retrieval or change its content. Extinction may itself suffer reconsolidation. Interactions among these proce...

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Main Authors: Natália G. Fiorenza, Dagieli Sartor, Jociane C. Myskiw, Iván Izquierdo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Academia Brasileira de Ciências 2011-12-01
Series:Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências
Subjects:
aprendizado de extinção
memórias de medo
memória
transtorno de estresse pós-traumático
reconsolidação
extinction learning
fear memories
memory
post-traumatic stress disorder
reconsolidation
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