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Neurosciences
Despina Antypa, Aurore A. Perrault, Patrik Vuilleumier, Sophie Schwartz, Ulrike Rimmele
Summary: Evidence from a study suggests that in humans, when memories are reactivated and immediately followed by suppression of cortisol levels, reconsolidation processes change in a way that leads to the strengthening of the reactivated memories.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
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Neurosciences
Yuanyang Xie, Yingfan Zhang, Ting Hu, Zijin Zhao, Qing Liu, Haoyu Li
Summary: This study demonstrates that GSK-3 beta activity in the basolateral amygdala (BLA) is required for the reconsolidation of heroin drug memory and inhibiting GSK-3 beta activity in BLA disrupts reconsolidation and attenuates heroin relapse. The results also suggest that the effect of GSK-3 beta inhibition is retrieval-dependent and time-specific. Additionally, the long-term effect of GSK-3 beta treatment leads to a detectable decrease in heroin-seeking behavior lasting at least 28 days.
FRONTIERS IN MOLECULAR NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Jasmine Herszage, Haggai Sharon, Nitzan Censor
Summary: The study demonstrates that motor skill learning can be achieved through brief memory reactivations, with the efficacy depending on the number of consecutive correct sequences during reactivations. Higher continuity reactivations result in higher learning gains, similar to extensive practice, while lower continuity reactivations lead to minimal gains.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2021)
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Neurosciences
Shuyi Qian, Cuijie Shi, Shihao Huang, Chang Yang, Yixiao Luo
Summary: The persistence of drug memories contributes to relapse to drug seeking. The erasure of drug memories has been considered as a promising way to inhibit cravings and prevent relapse. Disrupting the reconsolidation of drug memories attenuates drug-seeking behavior. In this study, inhibiting the activity of DNA methyltransferase during the reconsolidation of heroin reward memory was found to reduce the intensity of heroin-seeking behavior.
FRONTIERS IN MOLECULAR NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
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Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science
Jinhee H. Hwang, John C. Kube, Stephen B. Smith
Summary: The study demonstrated that lubabegron fumarate acts as an antagonist to beta-adrenergic receptor subtypes in subcutaneous adipocytes and exhibits different responses to beta-AA and LUB in subcutaneous and intramuscular adipocytes.
JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SCIENCE
(2022)
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Pharmacology & Pharmacy
Liangpei Chen, Shihao Huang, Chang Yang, Feilong Wu, Qiuyao Zheng, He Yan, Jie Yan, Yixiao Luo, Ewa Galaj
Summary: Propranolol may reduce relapse by interfering with the reconsolidation of heroin memory, holding potential therapeutic value in opioid addiction treatment and relapse prevention.
FRONTIERS IN PHARMACOLOGY
(2021)
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Behavioral Sciences
Nelson Francisco Correa-Netto, Alessandro Marcos Silva-Gomes, Alessandra Linardi, Jair Guilherme Santos-Junior, Marcia Yuriko Masukawa
Summary: Mice with protracted morphine withdrawal show increased anxiety-behavior expression, which is dependent on reexposure to the context of locomotor sensitization. Memory reconsolidation has an impact on the expression of conditioned anxiety, as observed in experiments involving mice subjected to memory reactivation. The influence of reconsolidation is mediated through updating the emotional valence of contextual memory associated with morphine administration.
BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH
(2023)
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Angel M. Cuesta, Eunate Gallardo-Vara, Juan Casado-Vela, Lucia Recio-Poveda, Luisa-Maria Botella, Virginia Albinana
Summary: Rare Diseases (RD), although individually may seem insignificant, collectively represent over 7000 different diseases that pose a life-threatening condition for patients. Drug repurposing, an alternative option in drug development, has been identified as a viable strategy to tackle RDs. Propranolol, initially prescribed for hypertension and other conditions, has shown promising therapeutic effects in RDs, including antiangiogenic, pro-apoptotic, vasoconstrictor, and anti-inflammatory properties.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
(2022)
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Psychology, Clinical
Grace Gale, Katie Walsh, Vanessa E. Hennessy, L. E. Stemerding, Koa Sher Ni, Emily Thomas, Sunjeev K. Kamboj, Ravi K. Das
Summary: This study shows that conducting counterconditioning after retrieving naturalistic drinking memories can lead to greater long-term reductions in drinking, despite no short-term group differences in acute alcohol responses. There was noted to be a large variability in learning levels during counterconditioning. Responsiveness to counterconditioning only predicted subsequent responses to acute alcohol in the retrieval plus prediction error group, consistent with reconsolidation-update mechanisms.
PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Jasmine Herszage, Marlene Bonstrup, Leonardo G. Cohen, Nitzan Censor
Summary: Abundant evidence suggests that consolidated memories can be modified after reactivation. This study explores whether motor skill memories can be modified after brief reactivations, even at the early stages of learning. The results indicate that memories formed during early learning are not susceptible to interference or enhancement within a rapid reactivation-induced time window, suggesting that reactivation-induced motor skill memory modulation may depend on longer timescales of consolidation.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2023)
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Pharmacology & Pharmacy
Kwang-Hyun Hur, Seong-Eon Kim, Shi-Xun Ma, Bo-Ram Lee, Yong-Hyun Ko, Jee-Yeon Seo, Seon-Kyung Kim, Young-Jung Kim, Su-Jeong Sung, Youyoung Lee, Young Hoon Jung, Yong-Sup Lee, Seok-Yong Lee, Choon-Gon Jang
Summary: The study demonstrates that methoxphenidine exhibits addictive and schizophrenia-like behaviors, inducing neurochemical changes in brain regions associated with these behaviors. These findings suggest that methoxphenidine could be utilized in developing animal disease models and calls for legal restrictions on its recreational use.
BRITISH JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY
(2021)
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Segev Barak, Koral Goltseker
Summary: Studies indicate that intervening in the reconsolidation of alcohol and nicotine/tobacco memories may help reduce relapse, serving as a potential strategy to suppress relapse to alcohol drinking and tobacco smoking.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
(2021)
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Behavioral Sciences
Chaoran Cheng, Marc T. J. Exton-McGuinness, Jonathan L. C. Lee
Summary: This study found that reactivation with a change in reward contingency can destabilize previously learned instrumental memory. The presence of other reward-related memories may influence the impact of the reactivation session on the instrumental memory.
FRONTIERS IN BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Psychology
Zhibang Huang, Sheng Li
Summary: Reactivating originally learned reward associations can reduce retroactive interference in reward learning, improving learning outcomes. Retroactive interference is significantly reduced when new reward learning takes place within a reconsolidation window.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-LEARNING MEMORY AND COGNITION
(2022)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
N. Pintori, A. Piva, V Guardiani, I Decimo, C. Chiamulera
Summary: The study found that brief exposure to environmental enrichment may enhance contextual-induced sucrose-seeking behavior and have an impact on short-term memory reactivation, but not on long-term memory retrieval. Additionally, environmental enrichment exposure may also affect different molecular markers of memory reactivation and have an influence on behavior.
BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH
(2022)