Memory reconsolidation in aversive and appetitive settings
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Authors
Colleges, School and Institutes
Abstract
Memory reconsolidation has been observed across species and in a number of behavioral paradigms. The majority of memory reconsolidation studies have been carried out in Pavlovian fear conditioning and other aversive memory settings, with potential implications for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder. However, there is a growing literature on memory reconsolidation in appetitive reward-related memory paradigms, including translational models of drug addiction. While there appears to be substantial similarity in the basic phenomenon and underlying mechanisms of memory reconsolidation across unconditioned stimulus valence, there are also notable discrepancies. These arise both when comparing aversive to appetitive paradigms and also across different paradigms within the same valence of memory. We review the demonstration of memory reconsolidation across different aversive and appetitive memory paradigms, the commonalities and differences in underlying mechanisms and the conditions under which each memory undergoes reconsolidation. We focus particularly on whether principles derived from the aversive literature are applicable to appetitive settings, and also whether the expanding literature in appetitive paradigms is informative for fear memory reconsolidation.
Details
Original language | English |
---|---|
Article number | 118 |
Journal | Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience |
Volume | 7 |
Early online date | 9 Sep 2013 |
Publication status | Published - Sep 2013 |
Keywords
- memory reconsolidation, fear memory, appetitive conditioning, drug addiction, post-traumatic stress disorder, NMDA antagonists, protein synthesis inhibitors