Cristina Siller

Nathan Kline Institute · Emotional Brain Institute

Significance The basolateral amygdala is known to mediate emotional arousal effects on different forms of recognition memory via functional interactions with the insular cortex. Human neuroimaging studies have revealed that emotional stimulation first rapidly increases activity of the anterior division of the insular cortex, as part of the large-sc...

Glucocorticoid hormones are crucially involved in modulating mnemonic processing of stressful or emotionally arousing experiences. They are known to enhance the consolidation of new memories, including those that extinguish older memories. In this study, we investigated whether glucocorticoids facilitate the extinction of a striatum-dependent, and...

The endocannabinoid (eCB) system is highly stress sensitive and known to modulate memory formation of emotionally arousing experiences across different corticolimbic structures. eCB signaling within these circuits is also essentially involved in regulating non-genomically mediated glucocorticoid hormone effects on memory. It has long been thought t...

Glucocorticoid stress hormones are known to enhance the consolidation of hippocampus-dependent spatial and contextual memory. Recent findings indicate that glucocorticoids also enhance the consolidation of procedural memory that relies on the dorsal striatum. The dorsal striatum can be functionally subdivided into the dorsolateral striatum (DLS), w...

La memoria es un proceso esencial en los animales que les permite adaptarse al medio en el que viven. Ésta consta de varias etapas en las que la información que ha sido adquirida previamente es almacenada, recuperada y susceptible a la extinción. Las etapas de la memoria comparten elementos celulares pero también requieren de otros específicos para...