Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric disorder associated with memories of
traumatic experiences. Conditioned fear memory, a representative model of traumatic …

A host of learning, memory, and decision-making processes form the individual's response
to threat and may be disrupted in anxiety and post-trauma psychopathology. Here we review …

Memory formation enables the retention of life experiences overtime. Based on previously
acquired information, organisms can anticipate future events and adjust their behaviors to …

Clinical trials have demonstrated that 3, 4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)
paired with psychotherapy is more effective at reducing symptoms of post-traumatic stress …

The re-ignition of memory reconsolidation research sparked by Karim Nader in the early
2000s led to great excitement that 'reconsolidation-based'interventions might be developed …

Re-exposure to elements of prior experiences can create opportunities for inducing amnesia
for those events. The dominant theoretical framework posits that such re-exposure can result …

Learning to associate certain contexts with threat and adapting to changing environmental
contingencies by learning that such contexts are no longer associated with threat are both …

Memory reminders can return a memory into an unstable state such that it will decay unless
actively restabilized into long-term memory through reconsolidation. Exposure to a memory …

Pharmacological manipulation of memory reconsolidation opens up promising new avenues
for anxiety disorder treatment. However, few studies have directly investigated …

Addiction is a chronic, relapsing disorder. The progression to pathological drug-seeking is
thought to be driven by maladaptive learning processes which store and maintain …