Memory editing from science fiction to clinical practice

EA Phelps, SG Hofmann - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Science fiction notions of altering problematic memories are starting to become reality as
techniques emerge through which unique memories can be edited. Here we review memory …

Memory boundaries: opening a window inspired by reconsolidation to treat anxiety, trauma-related, and addiction disorders

MH Monfils, EA Holmes - The Lancet Psychiatry, 2018 - thelancet.com
Pioneering research over the past two decades has shown that memories are far more
malleable than we once thought, thereby highlighting the potential for new clinical avenues …

Evidence for incentive salience sensitization as a pathway to alcohol use disorder

RU Cofresí, BD Bartholow, TM Piasecki - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2019 - Elsevier
The incentive salience sensitization (ISS) theory of addiction holds that addictive behavior
stems from the ability of drugs to progressively sensitize the brain circuitry that mediates …

Modulation of naturalistic maladaptive memories using behavioural and pharmacological reconsolidation-interfering strategies: a systematic review and meta-analysis …

KH Walsh, RK Das, ME Saladin, SK Kamboj - Psychopharmacology, 2018 - Springer
Background Consolidated memories can undergo enduring modification through retrieval-
dependent treatments that modulate reconsolidation. This represents a potentially …

The evidence for and against reactivation-induced memory updating in humans and nonhuman animals

KH Jardine, AE Huff, CE Wideman, SD McGraw… - Neuroscience & …, 2022 - Elsevier
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 …

Advances in behavioral animal models of alcohol use disorder

K Goltseker, FW Hopf, S Barak - Alcohol, 2019 - Elsevier
Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a multifaceted neuropsychiatric disease that combines
behavioral, psychosocial, and neurobiological aspects. Over the previous decade, animal …

[HTML][HTML] Manipulating critical memory periods to treat psychiatry disorders

J Deng, X Lin, Y Zheng, S Su, X Liu, K Yuan, L Shi… - Science Bulletin, 2023 - Elsevier
The persistence of pathological memory is the basis of several psychiatric disorders.
Memory retrieval induces “reconsolidation”, a time interval during which the original memory …

Learning processes in relapse to alcohol use: lessons from animal models

MD Valyear, MR LeCocq, A Brown, FR Villaruel… - …, 2023 - Springer
Rationale Alcohol use is reliably preceded by discrete and contextual stimuli which, through
diverse learning processes, acquire the capacity to promote alcohol use and relapse to …

Blocking μ-opioid receptors attenuates reinstatement of responding to an alcohol-predictive conditioned stimulus through actions in the ventral hippocampus

MR LeCocq, P Chander, N Chaudhri - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2023 - nature.com
The µ-opioid system is involved in the reinstatement of responding that is immediately
evoked by alcohol-predictive cues. The extent of its involvement in reinstatement observed …

Behavioral, neurobiological, and neurochemical mechanisms of ethanol self-administration: A translational review

AA Vena, SL Zandy, RU Cofresí… - Pharmacology & …, 2020 - Elsevier
Alcohol use disorder has multiple characteristics including excessive ethanol consumption,
impaired control over drinking behaviors, craving and withdrawal symptoms, compulsive …