A Snapshot seminar hosted by the School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience
Abstract: Maladaptive emotional memories contribute to the persistence of numerous mental health disorders, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), drug addiction and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Targeting the reconsolidation of these maladaptive memories may provide avenues for new treatment development, though reconsolidation-based approaches also present challenges. This talk will consider some of the mechanisms by which pavlovian and instrumental memories become once again labile long after learning, and how this might influence the design of reconsolidation-based treatments for mental health disorders.
If you would like to chat with the speaker while they are here, please get in touch with the host johan.alsio@bristol.ac.uk