Sleep, Plasticity and the Pathophysiology of Neurodevelopmental Disorders: The Potential Roles of Protein Synthesis and Other Cellular Processes by Dante Picchioni, R. Michelle Reith, Jeffrey L. Nadel, Carolyn B. Smith

“…Sleep is important for neural plasticity, and plasticity underlies sleep-dependent memory consolidation. It is widely appreciated that protein synthesis plays an essential role in neural plasticity. …”
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High-Throughput Analysis of in-vitro LFP Electrophysiological Signals: A validated workflow/software package by P. Tsakanikas, C. Sigalas, P. Rigas, I. Skaliora

“…Abstract Synchronized brain activity in the form of alternating epochs of massive persistent network activity and periods of generalized neural silence, has been extensively studied as a fundamental form of circuit dynamics, important for many cognitive functions including short-term memory, memory consolidation, or attentional modulation. A key element in such studies is the accurate determination of the timing and duration of those network events. …”
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Sharp-Wave Ripples Orchestrate the Induction of Synaptic Plasticity during Reactivation of Place Cell Firing Patterns in the Hippocampus by Josef H.L.P. Sadowski, Matthew W. Jones, Jack R. Mellor

“…Our findings confirm an important role for SWRs in triggering and tuning plasticity processes that underlie memory consolidation in the hippocampus during rest or sleep.…”
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The Influence of Sleep on the Consolidation of Positive Emotional Memories: Preliminary Evidence by Alexis M. Chambers, Jessica D. Payne

“…However, sleep's role in emotional memory consolidation has largely been investigated with memories that are specifically negative in content, such as memory for negative images or texts, leaving open the question of whether sleep influences positive memories in a similar manner. …”
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Central interaction of ascorbic acid and D2 dopamine receptors on spatial learning and memory in adult male rats by Sima Nasri, Mehri Bahaaddini, mehdi abbasnejad, Saeed Esmaeili-Mahani, Ramin Raoof

“…Administration of bromocriptine, a D2 agonist, increased the effect of ascorbic acid, while treatment with the selective D2 antagonist sulpiride resulted in prevention of the ascorbate-induced memory consolidation. These results indicate that dopamine D2 receptors may be involved in ascorbic acid-induced learning and memory impairment.…”
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Neurogenic Interventions for Fear Memory via Modulation of the Hippocampal Function and Neural Circuits by Hee Ra Park, Mudan Cai, Eun Jin Yang

“…These regions are involved in learning, memory, consolidation, and extinction. These are also the brain regions where new neurons are generated and are crucial for memory formation and integration. …”
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Cued Reactivation of Motor Learning during Sleep Leads to Overnight Changes in Functional Brain Activity and Connectivity. by James N Cousins, Wael El-Deredy, Laura M Parkes, Nora Hennies, Penelope A Lewis

“…Sleep plays a role in memory consolidation. This is demonstrated by improved performance and neural plasticity underlying that improvement after sleep. …”
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Reactivation of the Same Synapses during Spontaneous Up States and Sensory Stimuli by Xiaowei Chen, Nathalie L. Rochefort, Bert Sakmann, Arthur Konnerth

“…However, spine signaling during ongoing cortical activity in the absence of sensory input, which is essential for important functions like memory consolidation, is not well understood. Here, by using in vivo two-photon imaging of auditory cortical neurons, we demonstrate that subthreshold, NMDA-receptor-dependent spine calcium signals are abundant during up states, but almost absent during down states. …”
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No evidence for memory decontextualization across one night of sleep by Katarzyna eJurewicz, Maren eCordi, Tobias eStaudigl, Tobias eStaudigl, Bjoern eRasch, Bjoern eRasch

“…Sleep after learning strengthens memory consolidation. According to the active system consolidation hypothesis, sleep supports the integration of newly acquired memories into cortical knowledge networks, presumably accompanied by a process of decontextualization of the memory trace (i.e., a gradual loss of memory for the learning context). …”
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Rocking Devices and the Role of Vestibular Stimulation on Sleep—A Systematic Review by Abimanju Subramaniam, Aleksandra K. Eberhard-Moscicka, Matthias Ertl, Fred W. Mast

“…Vestibular stimulation also led to more sleep spindles and better memory consolidation. Optimal stimulation intensity was around 25 cm/s², and lower intensities led to smaller effects. …”
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Divided attention improves delayed, but not immediate retrieval of a consolidated memory. by Yoav Kessler, Susan Vandermorris, Nigel Gopie, Alexander Daros, Gordon Winocur, Morris Moscovitch

“…The present study examined the role of memory consolidation in accounting for the after-effect of DA during retrieval. …”
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Medial septal cholinergic mediation of hippocampal theta rhythm induced by vagal nerve stimulation. by Adam Broncel, Renata Bocian, Paulina Kłos-Wojtczak, Jan Konopacki

“…Recently we discovered that VNS induced hippocampal formation (HPC) type II theta rhythm, which is involved in memory consolidation. In the present study, we have extended our previous observation and addressed the neuronal substrate and pharmacological profile of HPC type II theta rhythm induced by VNS in anesthetized rats. …”
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Transcriptome Profile in Hippocampus During Acute Inflammatory Response to Surgery: Toward Early Stage of PND by Xuwu Xiang, Yang Yu, Xiaodong Tang, Manli Chen, Yueying Zheng, Shengmei Zhu

“…We demonstrated that memory consolidation of the hippocampal-dependent trace-fear conditioning task was significantly impaired. …”
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Anesthesia, Sedation and Memory – Is Everything So Simple? by V. O. Churakov, A. Yu. Zaitsev, K. V. Anokhin, K. V. Dubrovin, A. M. Bukinich, G. D. Vzorin, V. V. Nurkova

“…Special attention is paid to the mechanism of action of GABAergic drugs on the processes of memory consolidation and reconsolidation.…”
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Visuomotor Adaptation Modulates the Clustering of Sleep Spindles Into Trains by Agustín Solano, Luis A. Riquelme, Daniel Perez-Chada, Valeria Della-Maggiore

“…Sleep spindles are thought to promote memory consolidation. Recently, we have shown that visuomotor adaptation (VMA) learning increases the density of spindles and promotes the coupling between spindles and slow oscillations, locally, with the level of spindle-SO synchrony predicting overnight memory retention. …”
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Dimensional reduction of emergent spatiotemporal cortical dynamics via a maximum entropy moment closure. by Yuxiu Shao, Jiwei Zhang, Louis Tao

“…Oscillations, traveling waves and other complex population dynamical patterns are often concomitant with sensory processing, information transfer, decision making and memory consolidation. While neural population models such as neural mass, population density and kinetic theoretical models have been used to capture a wide range of the experimentally observed dynamics, a full account of how the multi-scale dynamics emerges from the detailed biophysical properties of individual neurons and the network architecture remains elusive. …”
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Molecular motor KIF3B in the prelimbic cortex constrains the consolidation of contextual fear memory by Nadine F. Joseph, Aya Zucca, Jenna L. Wingfield, Isabel Espadas, Damon Page, Sathyanarayanan V. Puthanveettil

“…However, the regulation and function of KIFs in the prelimbic cortex insofar as mediating memory consolidation is not known. We find that within one hour of contextual fear conditioning, the expression of KIF3B is upregulated in the prelimbic but not the infralimbic cortex. …”
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Neuroligin-3-Mediated Synapse Formation Strengthens Interactions between Hippocampus and Barrel Cortex in Associative Memory by Huajuan Xiao, Yang Xu, Shan Cui, Jin-Hui Wang

“…New synapse interconnections and the strengthening of these interconnections appear to endorse the belief in an interaction between the hippocampus and sensory cortices for memory consolidation.…”
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Potentials and limits to enhance cognitive functions in healthy and pathological aging by tDCS by Kristin ePrehn, Agnes eFlöel

“…Following, we will discuss modulating factors such as technical parameters as well as the question if there are specific cognitive functions (e.g., learning, memory consolidation, executive control) which are more amenable to tDCS enhancement than others. …”
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Reward timing matters in motor learning by Pierre Vassiliadis, Aegryan Lete, Julie Duque, Gerard Derosiere

“…Participants who learned the skill with a long reward delay also exhibited reduced overnight memory consolidation. Overall, our data show that reward timing affects the dynamics and consolidation of motor learning, a finding that could be exploited in future rehabilitation programs.…”
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