Memories of emotionally arousing events tend to endure longer than other memories. This review compiles findings from several decades of research investigating the role of the …
Emotional events are often remembered better than neutral events, a benefit that many studies have hypothesized to depend on the amygdala's interactions with memory systems …
Memory for aversive events is central to survival but can become maladaptive in psychiatric disorders. Memory enhancement for emotional events is thought to depend on amygdala …
S Bahtiyar, KG Karaca, MJAG Henckens… - Molecular and Cellular …, 2020 - Elsevier
Stressful and emotionally arousing experiences activate hormonal and brain systems that create strong memories. Extensive evidence indicates that this strengthening effect involves …
Emotionally arousing experiences are better remembered than neutral ones, highlighting that memory consolidation differentially promotes retention of experiences depending on …
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a common multisystem chronic disorder. Functional and structural neuroimaging has been widely applied in patients with OSA, but these studies …
Gamma is a ubiquitous brain rhythm hypothesized to support cognitive, perceptual, and mnemonic functions by coordinating neuronal interactions. While much correlational …
J Wang, H Barbas - Journal of Neuroscience, 2018 - Soc Neuroscience
The amygdala projects to hippocampus in pathways through which affective or social stimuli may influence learning and memory. We investigated the still unknown amygdalar …
Declarative memories of stressful events are less prone to forgetting than mundane events. Animal research has demonstrated that such stress effects on consolidation of hippocampal …