ReviewJournal of personalized medicine2021
Forgetting Unwanted Memories: Active Forgetting and Implications for the Development of Psychological Disorders.
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- Predicting Psychopathological Onset: Early Signs of Neuropsychiatric Diseases.Journal of personalized medicine · 2022Article
- Forgetting generates a novel state that is reactivatable.Science advances · 2022Article
- Acute stress impairs intentional memory suppression through aberrant prefrontal cortex activation in high trait ruminators.International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHPArticle
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Abstract
Intrusive memories are a common feature of many psychopathologies, and suppression-induced forgetting of unwanted memories appears as a critical ability to preserve mental health. In recent years, biological and cognitive studies converged in revealing that forgetting is due to active processes. Recent neurobiological studies provide evidence on the active role of main neurotransmitter systems in forgetting, suggesting that the brain actively works to suppress retrieval of unwanted memories. On the cognitive side, there is evidence that voluntary and involuntary processes (here termed "intentional" and "incidental" forgetting, respectively) contribute to active forgetting. In intentional forgetting, an inhibitory control mechanism suppresses awareness of unwanted memories at encoding or retrieval. In incidental forgetting, retrieval practice of some memories involuntarily suppresses the retrieval of other related memories. In this review we describe recent findings on deficits in active forgetting observed in psychopathologies, like post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, schizophrenia, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Moreover, we report studies in which the role of neurotransmitter systems, known to be involved in the pathogenesis of mental disorders, has been investigated in active forgetting paradigms. The possibility that biological and cognitive mechanisms of active forgetting could be considered as hallmarks of the early onset of psychopathologies is also discussed.
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