ArticleNature neuroscience2014
An electroconvulsive therapy procedure impairs reconsolidation of episodic memories in humans.
Article in Nature neuroscience, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 55 papers.
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55 citing papers in PubMed.
- Effect of inhibition of reactivated alcohol-associated memories with propranolol on alcohol craving.BMC psychiatry · 2025Trial
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- Effectiveness of Emotional Memory Reactivation vs Control Memory Reactivation Before Electroconvulsive Therapy in Adult Patients With Depressive Disorder: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2020Trial
- Preventing intrusive memories after trauma via a brief intervention involving Tetris computer game play in the emergency department: a proof-of-concept randomized controlled trial.Molecular psychiatry · 2018Trial
- Intrusions in episodic memory: reconsolidation or interference?Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) · 2017Trial
- How Administration of the Beta-Blocker Propranolol Before Extinction can Prevent the Return of Fear.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2016Trial
- Does the Loss of Autobiographical Memories Contribute to the Therapeutic Effect of Electroconvulsive Therapy?Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica · 2026Article
- From Biomarkers to New Treatments for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.Neuroscience bulletin · 2026Review
- Can Theta Burst Electromagnetic Fields Disrupt Learning in Planaria? Evidence of Impaired Fear-Conditioned Responses.Bioelectromagnetics · 2025Article
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- Post-retrieval stress impairs subsequent memory depending on hippocampal memory trace reinstatement during reactivation.Science advances · 2024Article
- Esketamine-induced post-traumatic stress disorder flashbacks during treatment-resistant depression indication: is it just a side effect?medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2024Article
- Contemporary Approaches Toward Neuromodulation of Fear Extinction and Its Underlying Neural Circuits.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2023Article
- Recent advances in electroconvulsive therapy in clinical practice and research.Faculty reviews · 2023Review
- Retrieval suppression induced forgetting on 1-week-old consolidated episodic memories.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2022Article
- Seizures induced in electroconvulsive therapy as a human epilepsy model: A comparative case study.Epilepsia open · 2021Article
- Selectively Interfering With Intrusive but Not Voluntary Memories of a Trauma Film: Accounting for the Role of Associative Memory.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2021Article
- Suppressing the Morning Cortisol Rise After Memory Reactivation at 4 A.M. enhances Episodic Memory Reconsolidation in Humans.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2021Article
- Cognitive effects of rapid-acting treatments for resistant depression: Just adverse, or contributing to clinical efficacy?Journal of psychiatric research · 2021Review
- A study on episodic memory reconsolidation that tells us more about consolidation.Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) · 2021Article
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Abstract
Despite accumulating evidence for a reconsolidation process in animals, support in humans, especially for episodic memory, is limited. Using a within-subjects manipulation, we found that a single application of electroconvulsive therapy following memory reactivation in patients with unipolar depression disrupted reactivated, but not non-reactivated, memories for an emotional episode in a time-dependent manner. Our results provide evidence for reconsolidation of emotional episodic memories in humans.
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