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ReviewTranslational psychiatry2024

Memory persistence: from fundamental mechanisms to translational opportunities.

Santiago Abel Merlo, Mariano Andrés Belluscio, Maria Eugenia Pedreira, Emiliano Merlo

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Review in Translational psychiatry, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Role of CPEBs in Learning and Memory.Journal of neurochemistry · 2025
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  11. The contributing role of CCR5 in dementia.Frontiers in neurology · 2025
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  13. Memory engram stability and flexibility.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2024
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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

4 authors.

Santiago Abel MerloInstituto de Fisiología, Biología Molecular y Neurociencias, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas and Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Mariano Andrés BelluscioInstituto de Fisiología y Biofísica Bernardo Houssay, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas and Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Maria Eugenia PedreiraInstituto de Fisiología, Biología Molecular y Neurociencias, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas and Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Emiliano MerloSchool of Psychology, University of Sussex, Falmer, UK. E.Merlo@sussex.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0001-9162-6858

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Memory persistence is a double edge sword. Persistence of adaptive memories is essential for survival and even determines who we are. Neurodegenerative conditions with significant memory loss such as Alzheimer's disease, testify how defects of memory persistence have severe and irreversible effects on personality, among other symptoms. Yet, maintenance of overly strong maladaptive memories underlies highly debilitating psychiatric conditions including post-traumatic stress disorder, specific phobia, substance dependence and binge eating disorder. Here we review the neurobiological mechanisms supporting memory formation, persistence, inhibition and forgetting. We then shift the focus to how such mechanisms have been exploited to alter the persistence of laboratory-generated memories in human healthy volunteers as a proof of concept. Finally, we review the effect of behavioural and pharmacological interventions in anxiety and addiction disorder patients, highlighting key findings, gaps, and future directions for basic and translational research.

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Phobic DisordersStress Disorders, Post-TraumaticSubstance-Related DisordersAnxiety DisordersHumansMemory Disorders

Identifiers

PMID38355584
PMCPMC10867010

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