Tackling maladaptive memories through reconsolidation: From neural to clinical science

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 142, Issue , 2017, Pages 108-117

  Elsey, James W B ^a   Kindt, Merel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anxiety disorders; Clinical applications of reconsolidation; Memory reconsolidation; Prediction error; PTSD; Translational research

Indexed keywords

6 CYANO 7 NITRO 2,3 QUINOXALINEDIONE; AMPA RECEPTOR; ANISOMYCIN; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; IFENPRODIL; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; PROPRANOLOL;

BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY; ECOLOGICAL VALIDITY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HUMAN; MALADJUSTMENT; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY RECONSOLIDATION; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROSCIENCE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; REINFORCEMENT; REVIEW; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH; ANXIETY DISORDER; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOTHERAPY;

ANXIETY DISORDERS; HUMANS; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; PSYCHOTHERAPY; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 85015424372     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: 10959564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2017.03.007     Document Type: Review

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