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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2022

Human cerebellum and corticocerebellar connections involved in emotional memory enhancement.

Matthias Fastenrath, Klara Spalek, David Coynel, Eva Loos, Annette Milnik, Tobias Egli, Nathalie Schicktanz, Léonie Geissmann, Benno Roozendaal, Andreas Papassotiropoulos and 1 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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38 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 57 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.

Matthias FastenrathDivision of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel, Basel, 4055, Switzerland.
Klara SpalekDivision of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel, Basel, 4055, Switzerland.
David CoynelDivision of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel, Basel, 4055, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-5028-5807
Eva LoosDivision of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel, Basel, 4055, Switzerland.
Annette MilnikResearch Platform Molecular and Cognitive Neurosciences, University of Basel, Basel, 4055, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-3933-3289
Tobias EgliResearch Platform Molecular and Cognitive Neurosciences, University of Basel, Basel, 4055, Switzerland.
Nathalie SchicktanzDivision of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel, Basel, 4055, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-6049-6306
Léonie GeissmannDivision of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel, Basel, 4055, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-1175-652X
Benno RoozendaalDepartment of Cognitive Neuroscience, Radboud University Medical Center, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, 6525, The Netherlands.
Andreas PapassotiropoulosResearch Platform Molecular and Cognitive Neurosciences, University of Basel, Basel, 4055, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-2210-9651
Dominique J-F de QuervainDivision of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel, Basel, 4055, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-7131-2464
University of Basel · CHRadboud University Nijmegen · NL

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Emotional information is better remembered than neutral information. Extensive evidence indicates that the amygdala and its interactions with other cerebral regions play an important role in the memory-enhancing effect of emotional arousal. While the cerebellum has been found to be involved in fear conditioning, its role in emotional enhancement of episodic memory is less clear. To address this issue, we used a whole-brain functional MRI approach in 1,418 healthy participants. First, we identified clusters significantly activated during enhanced memory encoding of negative and positive emotional pictures. In addition to the well-known emotional memory-related cerebral regions, we identified a cluster in the cerebellum. We then used dynamic causal modeling and identified several cerebellar connections with increased connection strength corresponding to enhanced emotional memory, including one to a cluster covering the amygdala and hippocampus, and bidirectional connections with a cluster covering the anterior cingulate cortex. The present findings indicate that the cerebellum is an integral part of a network involved in emotional enhancement of episodic memory.

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ArousalEmotionsAmygdalaBrain MappingCerebellumHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingMental Recallcerebellumdynamic causal modelingemotional memory enhancementepisodic memoryfMRI

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PMID36191198
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