Publication Date:
2010-10-30
Description:
Traumatic fear memories can be inhibited by behavioral therapy for humans, or by extinction training in rodent models, but are prone to recur. Under some conditions, however, these treatments generate a permanent effect on behavior, which suggests that emotional memory erasure has occurred. The neural basis for such disparate outcomes is unknown. We found that a central component of extinction-induced erasure is the synaptic removal of calcium-permeable alpha-amino-3-hydroxyl-5-methyl-4-isoxazole-propionate receptors (AMPARs) in the lateral amygdala. A transient up-regulation of this form of plasticity, which involves phosphorylation of the glutamate receptor 1 subunit of the AMPA receptor, defines a temporal window in which fear memory can be degraded by behavioral experience. These results reveal a molecular mechanism for fear erasure and the relative instability of recent memory.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3001394/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3001394/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Clem, Roger L -- Huganir, Richard L -- F32 MH087037-01/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- R01 NS036715/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- R01 NS036715-11/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- R01NS036715/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2010 Nov 19;330(6007):1108-12. doi: 10.1126/science.1195298. Epub 2010 Oct 28.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Neuroscience and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21030604" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Amygdala/metabolism
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Animals
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Calcium/metabolism
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Conditioning (Psychology)
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*Extinction, Psychological
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Fear/*physiology
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Long-Term Synaptic Depression
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Male
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Memory/*physiology
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Mice
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Mice, Inbred C57BL
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Receptors, AMPA/*metabolism
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Receptors, Glutamate/metabolism
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Thalamus/metabolism
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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