Suppressing bad memories from the past can block memory formation in the here and now, research suggests.
The heroine of this film, played by Ms. Barrymore, wrecks her hippocampus, a brain structure involved in memory formation, in a car crash that kills her mother.
In recent years, researchers have used optogenetics to label hippocampal neurons that become active during memory formation in the mouse brain, and to manipulate the labelled ensembles in various ways.
Protein synthesis in neuronal dendrites underlies long-term memory formation in the brain.
The imaging results showed that testosterone shifted memory formation in the hippocampus and inferior temporal gyri from the encoding of female faces towards the encoding of male faces.
In contrast, testosterone shifted memory formation in the left inferior frontal gyrus from the encoding of male faces towards the encoding of female faces.
However, a considerable number of neuroimaging studies that have investigated memory formation in the context of prior knowledge have not found vmPFC involvement.
Here we show in a double-blind randomized crossover design that acute administration of ghrelin alters encoding-related brain activity, however does not enhance memory formation in humans.
The aim of this work was to investigate long and short-term plasticity responsible for memory formation in dissociated neuronal networks.
Considerable evidence indicates that adrenal hormones and the noradrenergic system play an important role in aversive and appetitive memory formation in rats and humans.
Protein removal led to poor learning and memory formation in the fruit flies, showing that inhibiting the protein is essential to memory storage.
