Memory as a new therapeutic target

Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 475-486

  Nader, Karim ^a   Hardt, Oliver ^b   Lanius, Ruth ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Forgetting; Memory; Psychotherapy; Reconsolidation

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CYCLOSERINE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; PLACEBO; PROPRANOLOL; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE ZETA; SYNAPSE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADDICTION; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONDITIONED REFLEX; DEFAULT MODE NETWORK; DELUSION; EMOTIONALITY; EXTINCTION LEARNING,; FACILITATION; FEAR; FORGETTING; HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; MEMORY RECONSOLIDATION; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SOCIAL COGNITION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC EFFICACY;

FORGETTING; MEMORY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RECONSOLIDATION;

BRAIN; HUMANS; MEMORY; MENTAL DISORDERS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY;

EID: 84893363654     PISSN: 12948322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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