Dec 23, 2022
How the Brain Stores Remote Fear Memory
Posted by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes in category: neuroscience
Summary: Remote fear memories, or memories of trauma formed in the distant past, are stored in the connections between neurons in the prefrontal cortex.
Source: UCR
A remote fear memory is a memory of traumatic events that occurred in the distant past—a few months to decades ago. A University of California, Riverside, mouse study published in Nature Neuroscience has now spelled out the fundamental mechanisms by which the brain consolidates remote fear memories.