Title |
Time-Dependent Effects of Cortisol on the Contextualization of Emotional Memories
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Published in |
Biological Psychiatry, August 2013
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DOI | 10.1016/j.biopsych.2013.06.022 |
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Authors |
Vanessa A. van Ast, Sandra Cornelisse, Martijn Meeter, Marian Joëls, Merel Kindt |
Abstract |
The inability to store fearful memories into their original encoding context is considered to be an important vulnerability factor for the development of anxiety disorders like posttraumatic stress disorder. Altered memory contextualization most likely involves effects of the stress hormone cortisol, acting via receptors located in the memory neurocircuitry. Cortisol via these receptors induces rapid nongenomic effects followed by slower genomic effects, which are thought to modulate cognitive function in opposite, complementary ways. Here, we targeted these time-dependent effects of cortisol during memory encoding and tested subsequent contextualization of emotional and neutral memories. |
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