Effects of endocannabinoid and endovanilloid systems on aversive memory extinction.

“In contextual fear conditioning animals have to integrate various elemental stimuli into a coherent representation of the condition and then associate context representation with punishment. Although several studies indicated the modulating role of endocannabinoid system (ECS) on the associative learning, ECS effect on contextual fear conditioning requires further investigations. The present study assessed the effects of the increased endocannabinoid anandamide (AEA) tone on acquisition, retrieval and extinction of the contextual fear conditioning…

 The present study indicates that ECS controls the extinction of aversive memories in the contextual fear conditioning.”

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23948212

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