Neuroscience: This Is Not a Spider

Curr Biol. 2016 Oct 10;26(19):R898-R900. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.08.037. Epub 2016 Oct 10.

¹ Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, and Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA; Translational Research Center, University Hospital of Psychiatry, University of Bern, Switzerland. Electronic address: philipp.homan@mssm.edu.
² Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, and Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA. Electronic address: daniela.schiller@mssm.edu.

Abstract

Long-term memories of fear have been notoriously difficult to alter. A new study finds access through the window of reconsolidation.