Preventing and treating PTSD-like memory by trauma contextualization
Individuals with PTSD are unable to recollect contextual cues related to the trauma. Here the authors show that this contextual amnesia, associated with the inhibition of hippocampal activity, is causally involved in PTSD-like hypermnesia in mice, and that re-exposure to all trauma-related cues elim...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2020-08-01
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Series: | Nature Communications |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18002-w |