FEAR MEMORY

doi:10.1152/physrev.00018.2015

FEAR MEMORY

2016-04-01

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Iván Izquierdo *

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Cristiane Regina Guerino Furini

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Myskiw, Jociane C.

DOI：10.1152/physrev.00018.2015

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Fear memory is the best-studied form of memory. It was thoroughly investigated in the past 60 years mostly using two classical conditioning procedures (contextual fear conditioning and fear conditioning to a tone) and one instrumental procedure (one-trial inhibitory avoidance). Fear memory is formed in the hippocampus (contextual conditioning and inhibitory avoidance), in the basolateral amygdala (inhibitory avoidance), and in the lateral amygdala (conditioning to a tone). The circuitry involves, in addition, the pre- and infralimbic ventromedial prefrontal cortex, the central amygdala subnuclei, and the dentate gyrus. Fear learning models, notably inhibitory avoidance, have also been very useful for the analysis of the biochemical mechanisms of memory consolidation as a whole. These studies have capitalized on in vitro observations on long-term potentiation and other kinds of plasticity. The effect of a very large number of drugs on fear learning has been intensively studied, often as a prelude to the investigation of effects on anxiety. The extinction of fear learning involves to an extent a reversal of the flow of information in the mentioned structures and is used in the therapy of posttraumatic stress disorder and fear memories in general.

Keywords:

LONG-TERM POTENTIATION

ONE-TRIAL AVOIDANCE

POSTTRAUMATIC-STRESS-DISORDER

DEPENDENT SYNAPTIC PLASTICITY

CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING-FACTOR

OBJECT RECOGNITION MEMORY

POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX

PROTEIN-KINASE-C

CYCLASE-ACTIVATING POLYPEPTIDE

ASPARTATE RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST

FEAR MEMORY

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