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Synapsin determines memory strength after punishment- and relief-learning.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 13 May 2015
Niewalda Thomas, Michels Birgit, Jungnickel Roswitha, Diegelmann Sören, Kleber Jörg, Kähne Thilo, Gerber Bertram
Abstract excerpt
Adverse life events can induce two kinds of memory with opposite valence, dependent on timing: "negative" memories for stimuli preceding them and "positive" memories for stimuli experienced at the moment of "relief." Such punishment memory and relief memory are found in insects, rats, and man. For example, fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) avoid an odor after odor-shock training ("forward conditioning" of the...
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