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Feb 20, 2024 · One of the most interesting findings was that stress could impede the formation of memories if it occurred prior to or during encoding, the time during which the memory is formed. But post-encoding stress actually improved memory formation and retrieval, meaning stress that occurred after the memory was formed actually led to better memory-making.
- Elizabeth Scott, Phd
Feb 18, 2022 · Key points. "Good stress" is processed adaptively, but "bad stress" can have lasting effects on brain structure, function, and plasticity that impact memory. Although stress reactivity differs ...
Jun 29, 2016 · Figure 5. Stress shifts the balance between multiple systems underlying learning and memory. At rest, this balance is tilted towards the ‘cognitive’ memory system depending on the hippocampus, allowing for the formation and recall of flexible memories. Stress, however, is thought to alter the system domination learning and memory.
- Susanne Vogel, Lars Schwabe
- 10.1038/npjscilearn.2016.11
- 2016
- NPJ Sci Learn. 2016; 1: 16011.
Aug 12, 2009 · Stressful, aversive events are extremely well remembered. Such a declarative memory enhancement is evidently beneficial for survival, but the same mechanism may become maladaptive and culminate in mental diseases such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Stress hormones are known to enhance postlearning consolidation of aversive memories but are also thought to have immediate effects on ...
- Marloes J. A. G. Henckens, Erno J. Hermans, Zhenwei Pu, Marian Joëls, Guillén Fernández
- 2009
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Mar 21, 2022 · Stress effects on memory are driven by the numerous neurotransmitters, hormones, and peptides that are released in response to stressful events and act directly, or indirectly via brainstem circuits, on medial-temporal and prefrontal areas crucial for memory (. Joëls and Baram, 2009. ; Figure 1 ).
Stress can strongly influence what we learn and remember, including by making memories stronger. Experiments probing stress effects on hippocampus-dependent memory in rodents have revealed modulatory factors and physiological mechanisms by which acute stress can enhance long-term memory. However, extending these findings and mechanisms to ...
May 4, 2022 · Further, stress may facilitate habitual forms of learning and memory. At the same time, stress can impair the formation and retrieval of stressor-unrelated information as well as memory flexibility, as reflected in reduced goal-directed learning, impaired memory updating and hampered transfer of memories to new situations.
