Multiple routes to enhanced memory for emotionally relevant events

N Rouhani, Y Niv, MJ Frank, L Schwabe - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2023 - cell.com
Events associated with aversive or rewarding outcomes are prioritized in memory. This
memory boost is commonly attributed to the elicited affective response, closely linked to …

Overnight neuronal plasticity and adaptation to emotional distress

Y Cabrera, KJ Koymans, GR Poe, HW Kessels… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Expressions such as 'sleep on it'refer to the resolution of distressing experiences across a
night of sound sleep. Sleep is an active state during which the brain reorganizes the …

Neuronal activity in the human amygdala and hippocampus enhances emotional memory encoding

SE Qasim, UR Mohan, JM Stein, J Jacobs - Nature Human Behaviour, 2023 - nature.com
Emotional events comprise our strongest and most valuable memories. Here we examined
how the brain prioritizes emotional information for storage using direct brain recording and …

[HTML][HTML] Theta–gamma coupling as a ubiquitous brain mechanism: implications for memory, attention, dreaming, imagination, and consciousness

M Ursino, G Pirazzini - Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 2024 - Elsevier
Highlights•Brain rhythms play a pivotal role in many cognitive functions.•Theta–gamma
coupling represents a code for memory organization of multiple items.•Recently, it has been …

Models of human hippocampal specialization: a look at the electrophysiological evidence

A Freelin, C Wolfe, B Lega - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2024 - cell.com
From an anatomical perspective, the concept that the anterior and posterior hippocampus
fulfill distinct cognitive roles may seem unsurprising. When compared with the posterior …

The reduction of effective feedback reception due to negative emotions in appeals

P Zhang, B Peng, Z Mi, Z Lin, H Du, L Cheng… - Humanities and Social …, 2024 - nature.com
Citizens' daily appeals are generally accompanied by negative sentiment, yet little is known
about the impact of negative emotions on official response behaviors in a closed online …

Awake ripples enhance emotional memory encoding in the human brain

H Zhang, I Skelin, S Ma, M Paff… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Enhanced memory for emotional experiences is hypothesized to depend on amygdala-
hippocampal interactions during memory consolidation. Here we show using intracranial …

Hippocampal functional connectivity after whiplash injury is linked to the development of chronic pain

P Branco, N Bosak, AD Vigotsky, Y Granovsky… - Nature Mental …, 2024 - nature.com
Brain-centric theories propose that chronic pain is driven and maintained by maladaptive
negative emotional learning, with the hippocampus playing a crucial role in the transition …

Distributed and dynamical communication: a mechanism for flexible cortico-cortical interactions and its functional roles in visual attention

S Ni, B Harris, P Gong - Communications Biology, 2024 - nature.com
Perceptual and cognitive processing relies on flexible communication among cortical areas;
however, the underlying neural mechanism remains unclear. Here we report a mechanism …

The central renin–angiotensin system: A genetic pathway, functional decoding, and selective target engagement characterization in humans

T Xu, Z Chen, X Zhou, L Wang, F Zhou… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Accumulating evidence suggests that the brain renin angiotensin system (RAS) plays a
pivotal role in the regulation of cognition and behavior as well as in the neuropathology of …