Write and rewrite memories: the role of the reconsolidation function in memory persistence.

ME PEDREIRA

Bogotá

Congreso; XI Congreso Nacional / XII Seminario Internacional de Neurociencias; 2018

Colegio Colombiano de Neurociencias

The ability to make predictions based on stored information is a general coding strategy. Would this capacity imply an important flexibility to rewrite memories as a consequence of a permanent changing world? In the last years, it has been shown that acquired memories can become active and update its content or strength by the labilization-reconsolidation process. Using a behavioural approach, I am going to show you our results, supporting these functions in a declarative memory in Humans. Then, our results in the searching of the neural footprints associated with the strengthening function with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Finally, I want to analyze not only the future avenues whereas the reconsolidation process could open a novel therapeutic window to modify dysfunctional memories and/or to improve memories of everyday life, but also as a mechanism for maintenance of some psychopathologies such as anxiety disorders