reconsolidation
Americannoun
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If you’ve ever gone to bed upset about something and woken up noticeably less bothered, it’s likely a result of the emotional processing and memory reconsolidation that happen during REM.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 27, 2023
A team at Harvard Medical School has recently discovered that xenon, the inert gas used as an anaesthetic, can also weaken the reconsolidation of fear memories in rats.
From The Guardian • Oct. 12, 2014
The new findings using extinction therapy during the reconsolidation period could be especially effective in treating adolescent anxiety because it bypasses the need for regulation of emotional responses from the prefrontal cortex.
From Scientific American • Nov. 26, 2013
Next the team tested whether the mechanism of reconsolidation could be exploited to break the connection between the purple square and the electrical shock.
From Scientific American • Nov. 26, 2013
Whether any of this gain in volume is lost in the process of sedimentation and reconsolidation, I do not know.
From Time and Change by Burroughs, John
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