Stress can affect cognition in many ways, with the outcome (ie, facilitating or impairing)
depending on a combination of factors related to both stress and the cognitive function …

Stress is a potent modulator of learning and memory processes. Although there have been a
few attempts in the literature to explain the diversity of effects (including facilitating …

Background Although disrupting the process of memory reconsolidation has a great
potential for clinical practice, the fear-amnesic effects are typically demonstrated through …

Although the relationship between stress intensity and memory function is generally
believed to follow an inverted-U-shaped curve, strikingly this phenomenon has not been …

Fear memories are crucial for survival. However, excessive generalization of such
memories, characterized by a failure to discriminate dangerous from safe stimuli, is common …

We previously demonstrated that disrupting reconsolidation by pharmacological
manipulations “deleted” the emotional expression of a fear memory in humans. If we are to …

The odors of predators used in animal models provide, in addition to electric footshock, an
important means to investigate the neurobiology of fear. Studies indicate that cat odor and …

A deficient extinction of memory is particularly important in the regime of fear, where it limits
the beneficial outcomes of treatments of anxiety disorders. Fear extinction is thought to …

Translational neuroscience bridges insights from specific mechanisms in rodents to complex
functions in humans and is key to advance our general understanding of central nervous …

The noradrenergic system plays a critical role in the 'consolidation'of emotional memory. If
we are to target 'reconsolidation'in patients with anxiety disorders, the noradrenergic …