The role of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex in memory consolidation

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 218, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 325-334

  Nieuwenhuis, Ingrid L C ^a,b   Takashima, Atsuko ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c ROYAL DUTCH KENTALIS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Confabulation; Fear conditioning; Infralimbic; Limbic system; Memory consolidation; Reward; Sleep; VmPFC

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ANTEROGRADE AMNESIA; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONFABULATION; CORPUS STRIATUM; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LIMBIC SYSTEM; LONG TERM MEMORY; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NEOCORTEX; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REVIEW; SYNAPSE; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MEMORY; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REWARD;

EID: 79151481294     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.12.009     Document Type: Review

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