Multiple memory systems, multiple time points: How science can inform treatment to control the expression of unwanted emotional memories

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 373, Issue 1742, 2018, Pages

  Visser, Renée M ^a   Lau Zhu, Alex ^a,b   Henson, Richard N ^a   Holmes, Emily A ^a,c  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aversive conditioning; Intrusive memory; Memory reconsolidation; Post traumatic stress disorder; Psychological treatment; Translational science

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; COMPLEXITY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONDITIONING; MEMORY; PSYCHOLOGY; SYMPTOM;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

ANIMAL; ANXIETY DISORDER; EMOTION; HUMAN; MEMORY;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY DISORDERS; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; MEMORY;

EID: 85040927348     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2017.0209     Document Type: Article

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