Stress, glucocorticoids and memory: implications for treating fear-related disorders

Nature Reviews Neuroscience 18, 7 (2017). doi:10.1038/nrn.2016.155 Authors: Dominique de Quervain, Lars Schwabe & Benno Roozendaal Glucocorticoid stress hormones are crucially involved in modulating mnemonic processing of emotionally arousing experiences. They enhance the consolidation of new memories, including those that extinguish older memories, but impair the retrieval of information stored in long-term memory. As strong aversive memories lie at the core
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