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Postnatal development of neurotransmitter systems and their relevance to extinction of conditioned fear
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posted on 2017-02-01, 00:00 authored by Jee Hyun KimJee Hyun Kim, C J Perry, D E Ganella, H B MadsenRemembering and forgetting are fundamental features of an organism. Extinction is a type of forgetting where there is a decrease in the significance and/or the meaning of an associative memory when elements of that memory no longer predict one another. The neural mechanisms underlying extinction of fear memories have been extensively studied in the laboratory because extinction processes are clinically relevant to exposure therapies that treat anxiety disorders. However, only in the last decade have we begun to unveil the similarities and differences in plasticity underlying extinction across development. So far it is clear that extinction is a developmentally dissociated process in behavior and in pharmacology, however there are many large gaps in the literature in understanding how the developmental trajectory of different neurotransmitters contribute to changes in the nature of extinction across development. We attempt to address these gaps in the present review. Major neurotransmitter systems including the glutamatergic and GABAergic systems, the monoamines, the endogenous opioid and cannabinoid systems, acetylcholines, and neuropeptides such as oxytocin have all been identified to play some role in extinction of fear memories and have been covered in this review. We hope to facilitate more research into mechanisms of extinction at different stages of life, especially noting that mental disorders are increasingly classified as neurodevelopmental disorders.
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Neurobiology of Learning and MemoryVolume
138Pagination
252 - 270Publisher
ElsevierLocation
Amsterdam, The NetherlandsPublisher DOI
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1074-7427eISSN
1095-9564Language
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2017, ElsevierUsage metrics
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Science & TechnologySocial SciencesLife Sciences & BiomedicineBehavioral SciencesNeurosciencesPsychologyPsychology, MultidisciplinaryNeurosciences & NeurologyExtinctionDevelopmentRodentNeurotransmittersPFCAmygdalaHippocampusMETHYL-D-ASPARTATECORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING-FACTORMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEXLONG-TERM POTENTIATIONGLUTAMATE-RECEPTOR SUBUNITMESSENGER-RNA EXPRESSIONCENTRAL-NERVOUS-SYSTEMIN-SITU HYBRIDIZATIONAMINO-ACID RECEPTORSOPIATE BINDING-SITES
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