Main description:

As little as 10 years ago, it was believed that memory went from short to long term via one consolidation practice that made that memory intractable. Since then, research has shown that long-term memories can be activated, modified, and reconsolidated in their new form. This research indicates that memories are more dynamic than once believed. And understanding how this process works and helping people to redefine established memories can be clinically useful if those memories lead to problems, as is the case in post-traumatic stress disorder.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of research on memory reconsolidation; what this has to say about the formation, storage, and changeability of memory; and the potential applications of this research to treating clinical disorders.

Contents:

1. The Discovery of Memory Reconsolidation Karim Nader 2. The Dynamic Nature of Memory Karim Nader, Oliver Hardt, Einar orn Einarrson, Peter S. B. Finnie 3. Mechanisms and Functions of Hippocampal Memory Reconsolidation Jonathan L. C. Lee 4. Reconsolidation of Pavlovian Conditioned Defense Responses in the Amygdala Jacek Debiec and Joseph E. LeDoux 5. Memory Reconsolidation: Lingering Consolidation and the Dynamic Memory Trace Cristina M. Alberini, Sarah A. Johnson and Xiajing Ye 6. Memory Reconsolidation versus Extinction Satoshi Kida 7. Memory Reconsolidation and Extinction in Invertebrates: Evolutionarily Conserved Characteristics of Memory Reprocessing and Restabilization Maria Eugenia Pedreira and Arturo Romano 8. Using Reconsolidation and Extinction to Weaken Fear Memories in Animal Models Carolyn E. Jones and Marie H. Monfils 9. Reconsolidation in Humans Elizabeth A. Phelps and Daniela Schiller 10. Reconsolidation of Declarative Memory Maria Eugenia Pedreira 11. Episodic Memory Reconsolidation: An Update Almut Hupbach, Rebecca Gomez and Lynn Nadel 12. Disrupting Consolidation and Reconsolidation of Human Emotional Memory with Propranolol Michelle H. Lonergan, Alain Brunet, Lening A. Olivera-Figueroa, and Roger K. Pitman 13. The Translational Potential of Memory Reconsolidation Philip R. Corlett and Jane R. Taylor 14. Memory Reconsolidation, Trace Reassociation and the Freudian Unconscious Cristina M. Alberini, Francois Ansermet, and Pierre Magistretti