ReviewNeurobiology of stress2023
The amygdala mediates the facilitating influence of emotions on memory through multiple interacting mechanisms.
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- Collateralization patterns of principal basolateral amygdala neurons delineate distinct output streams.iScience · 2025Article
- Spurious autobiographical memories of psychosis: a dopamine-gated neuroplasticity account for relapse and treatment-resistant psychosis.Psychological medicine · 2025Review
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- Predatory Odor Exposure as a Potential Paradigm for Studying Emotional Modulation of Memory Consolidation-The Role of the Noradrenergic Transmission in the Basolateral Amygdala.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- Functional neuroanatomy of basal forebrain projections to the basolateral amygdala: Transmitters, receptors, and neuronal subpopulations.Journal of neuroscience research · 2024Review
- Case report: Bridging limbic network epilepsy with psychiatric, memory, and sleep comorbidities: case illustrations of reversible psychosis symptoms during continuous, high-frequency ANT-DBS.Frontiers in network physiology · 2024Article
- Memory consolidation from a reinforcement learning perspective.Frontiers in computational neuroscience · 2024Article
- The acute effects of psychoactive drugs on emotional episodic memory encoding, consolidation, and retrieval: A comprehensive review.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2023Review
- Knowledge mapping of the relationship between norepinephrine and memory: a bibliometric analysis.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Emotionally arousing experiences are better remembered than neutral ones, highlighting that memory consolidation differentially promotes retention of experiences depending on their survival value. This paper reviews evidence indicating that the basolateral amygdala (BLA) mediates the facilitating influence of emotions on memory through multiple mechanisms. Emotionally arousing events, in part by triggering the release of stress hormones, cause a long-lasting enhancement in the firing rate and synchrony of BLA neurons. BLA oscillations, particularly gamma, play an important role in synchronizing the activity of BLA neurons. In addition, BLA synapses are endowed with a unique property, an elevated post-synaptic expression of NMDA receptors. As a result, the synchronized gamma-related recruitment of BLA neurons facilitates synaptic plasticity at other inputs converging on the same target neurons. Given that emotional experiences are spontaneously remembered during wake and sleep, and that REM sleep is favorable to the consolidation of emotional memories, we propose a synthesis for the various lines of evidence mentioned above: gamma-related synchronized firing of BLA cells potentiates synapses between cortical neurons that were recruited during an emotional experience, either by tagging these cells for subsequent reactivation or by enhancing the effects of reactivation itself.
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