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ArticleNeurobiology of aging2018

Behavioral tagging and capture: long-term memory decline in middle-aged rats.

Alexandra Gros, Szu-Han Wang

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Article in Neurobiology of aging, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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17 citing papers in PubMed, 30 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Synapses tagged, memories kept: synaptic tagging and capture hypothesis in brain health and disease.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024
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  16. Behavioral tagging underlies memory reconsolidation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Alexandra GrosCentre for Clinical Brain Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
Szu-Han WangCentre for Clinical Brain Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK; Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. Electronic address: S.Wang@ed.ac.uk.
Alzheimer Scotland · GBUniversity of Edinburgh · GB

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/M025128/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/P025315/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Decline in cognitive functions, including hippocampus-dependent spatial memory, is commonly observed at a later stage of aging (e.g., >20 months old in rodents) and typically studied after a discrete learning event. How normal aging, particularly at an early stage, affects the modulatory aspect of memory persistence is underinvestigated. Previous studies in young animals show that weak, fading memories can last longer if a modulating event, such as spatial novelty, is introduced around memory encoding. This is known as behavioral tagging and capture (BTC). Here, we investigated how early aging (10-13 months old) affects BTC in an appetitive delayed-matching-to-place task. We trained rats when they were young and middle aged and found that novelty facilitated long-term memory persistence in young but not in middle-aged rats. However, re-exposure to the encoded environment after learning improved memory persistence in middle-aged rats. BTC, combined with memory reactivation, facilitated memory persistence through reconsolidation. Our results point toward a weakened tagging and capture mechanism before reduction of plasticity-related proteins at an early stage of aging.

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AnimalsAppetiteBehavior, AnimalCognitive AgingHippocampusMaleMaze LearningMemory, Long-TermNeuronal PlasticityRats, Inbred StrainsSpatial MemoryMemory consolidationMemory modulationNormal agingReconsolidationReward learning

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PMID29609080
PMCPMC5964067
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