Identification of neuronal ensembles involved in remote fear memory extinction impairments

KF Tomaszewski, K Lukasiewicz, M Robacha… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Remote memory consolidation, extinction, and its impairments have been of interest to
researchers for years, especially due to its clinical relevance in patients with emotional …

Dentate gyrus contributes to retrieval as well as encoding: evidence from context fear conditioning, recall, and extinction

BE Bernier, AF Lacagnina, A Ayoub… - Journal of …, 2017 - Soc Neuroscience
Dentate gyrus (DG) is widely thought to provide a teaching signal that enables hippocampal
encoding of memories, but its role during retrieval is poorly understood. Some data and …

Npas4-mediated dopaminergic regulation of fear memory states

BJ Ko, JY Yoo, W Choi, R Dogan, K Sung, S Lee, D Um… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Amygdala circuitry encodes associations between conditioned stimuli and aversive
unconditioned stimuli, and also controls fear expression (Pape and Pare, 2010). However …

Cued fear memory generalization increases over time

GA Pollack, JL Bezek, SH Lee, MJ Scarlata… - Learning & …, 2018 - learnmem.cshlp.org
Fear memory is a highly stable and durable form of memory, even over vast (remote) time
frames. Nevertheless, some elements of fear memory can be forgotten, resulting in …

Prelimbic proBDNF facilitates memory destabilization by regulation of neuronal function in juveniles

W Sun, X Chen, Y Mei, Y Yang, X Li, L An - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Fear regulation changes as a function of age and adolescence is a key developmental
period for the continued maturation of fear neural circuitry. The involvement of prelimbic …

Reactivation-dependent transfer of fear memory between contexts requires M1 muscarinic receptor stimulation in dorsal hippocampus

KH Abouelnaga, AE Huff, KH Jardine, OS O'Neill… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Background: Memory updating is essential for integrating new information into existing
representations. However, this process could become maladaptive in conditions like post …

[HTML][HTML] Engram-specific transcriptome profiling of contextual memory consolidation

P Rao-Ruiz, JJ Couey, IM Marcelo… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Sparse populations of neurons in the dentate gyrus (DG) of the hippocampus are causally
implicated in the encoding of contextual fear memories. However, engram-specific …

Sleep, NMDA Receptor Subunits, and the Compensatory Pathway: Understanding Contextual Fear Conditioning in the Absence of the Dorsal Hippocampus

D Kant, SK Jha - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
The loss of the dorsal hippocampus (DH) results in profound deficits in contextual fear-
conditioned (CxFC) memory. Nonetheless, CxFC memories can still form without the DH …

[HTML][HTML] Anterior basolateral amygdala neurons comprise a remote fear memory engram

RJ Hammack, VE Fischer, MA Andrade… - Frontiers in Neural …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Threatening environmental cues often generate enduring fear memories, but
how these are formed and stored remains actively investigated. Recall of a recent fear …

[HTML][HTML] Interfering with contextual fear memories by post-reactivation administration of propranolol in mice: a series of null findings

WR Cox, L Faliagkas, A Besseling… - Frontiers in Behavioral …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Post-reactivation amnesia of contextual fear memories by blockade of noradrenergic
signaling has been shown to have limited replicability in rodents. This is usually attributed to …