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ReviewBrain and cognition2019

Enhancing memory with stress: Progress, challenges, and opportunities.

Elizabeth V Goldfarb

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Review in Brain and cognition, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
22citing papers in PubMed
1.0field-weighted citation impact, top 29% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 47 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Hippocampal Mechanisms Support Cortisol-Induced Memory Enhancements.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023
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  2. Long term structural and functional neural changes following a single infusion of Ketamine in PTSD.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2023
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  7. Trauma-predictive brain network connectivity adaptively responds to mild acute stress.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  16. Does acute stress play a role in the lasting therapeutic effects of psychedelic drugs?Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2023
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  17. Collective events and individual affect shape autobiographical memory.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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  18. Temporal Dynamics of Competition between Statistical Learning and Episodic Memory in Intracranial Recordings of Human Visual Cortex.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Elizabeth V GoldfarbYale Stress Center, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, 2 Church Street South, Suite 209, New Haven, CT 06519, United States. Electronic address: elizabeth.goldfarb@yale.edu.
Yale University · US

Funding

Neuroimaging Sciences Training ProgramT32DA022975 · NIDA · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI Graeme F Mason, Rajita Sinha · 2007 to 2026
$5.7M
NIDA NIH HHS T32 DA022975
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Stress can strongly influence what we learn and remember, including by making memories stronger. Experiments probing stress effects on hippocampus-dependent memory in rodents have revealed modulatory factors and physiological mechanisms by which acute stress can enhance long-term memory. However, extending these findings and mechanisms to understand when stress will enhance declarative memory in humans faces important challenges. This review synthesizes human and rodent studies of stress and memory, examining translational gaps related to measurements of declarative memory and stress responses in humans. Human studies diverge from rodent research by assessing declarative memories that may not depend on the hippocampus and by measuring peripheral rather than central stress responses. This highlights opportunities for future research across species, including assessing stress effects on hippocampal-dependent memory processes in humans and relating peripheral stress responses to stress effects on the function of memory-related brain regions in rodents. Together, these investigations will facilitate the translation of stress effects on memory function from rodents to humans and inform interventions that can harness the positive effects of stress on long-term memory.

Indexed as

CognitionHippocampusHumansMemoryStress, PsychologicalGlucocorticoidsHippocampusHumanMemoryRodentStress

Identifiers

PMID30553573
PMCPMC9972486
OpenAlexW2904573155

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Registered trials

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