Does reconsolidation occur in humans?

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue MAY, 2011, Pages

  Schiller, Daniela ^a   Phelps, Elizabeth A ^b  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Emotion; Episodic memory; Fear conditioning; Hippocampus; Procedural memory; Prorpanolol; Reconsolidation

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; PROPRANOLOL;

AMNESIA; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONDITIONING; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; EMOTION; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEAR; HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PROCEDURAL MEMORY; REINFORCEMENT; REVIEW; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING;

EID: 84855219000     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2011.00024     Document Type: Review

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