Huynh, T.N., Santini, E., and Klann, E. (2014) Requirment of mammaliant target of rapamycin complex 1 downstream effectors in
cued fear memory reconsolidation and its persistence.
Not exact matches
Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have now for the first time identified a sub-region in the brain that works to form a particular kind of
memory:
fear - associated with a specific environmental
cue or «contextual
fear memory.»
They then performed serial behavioral tests on the mice, including Y - maze test (to assess working
memory), rotarod test (motor function and learning), and contextual and
cued fear condition test (
fear learning and
memory).
Following contextual
fear conditioning, we then tested
fear memory retrieval in response to an auditory
cue, within a different environment.
The hippocampus and the amygdala are required for
fear memory where the hippocampus is involved in the formation and retrieval of context
fear associations and the amygdala is involved in conditioning and recall of associations to contextual and discrete
cues [18, 19].
In the
fear conditioning paradigm, only the combination of J147 and donepezil rescued the hippocampal - dependent deficit in contextual and
cued fear conditioning, suggesting the compounds» synergistic effect for this particular type of
memory (Figure 4C, D).