Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) develops after an exposure to a life-threatening event
and is characterized by intrusive memories. According to memory reconsolidation theory …

A serious lack of effective pharmacotherapeutic interventions for posttraumatic stress
disorder (PTSD) raises the urgent need for the development of novel treatments. Ketamine …

The brain supports adaptive behavior by generating predictions, learning from errors, and
updating memories to incorporate new information. Prediction error, or surprise, triggers …

The brain actively reshapes our understanding of past events in light of new incoming
information. In the current study, we ask how the brain supports this updating process during …

Negative schemas lie at the core of many common and debilitating mental disorders. Thus,
intervention scientists and clinicians have long recognized the importance of designing …

The characterization of the relationship between predictions and one-shot episodic
encoding poses an important challenge for memory research. On the one hand, events that …

Learning based on reward prediction error (RPE) was originally proposed in the context of
nondeclarative memory. We postulate that RPE may support declarative memory as well …

We constantly exploit the statistical regularities in our environment to help guide our
perception. The hippocampus has been suggested to play a pivotal role in both learning …

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

Systematic investigation of reactivation-induced memory updating began in the 1960s, and
a wave of research in this area followed the seminal articulation of “reconsolidation” theory …