Kalisch Raffael, Holt Beatrice, Petrovic Predrag, De Martino Benedetto, Klöppel Stefan, Büchel Christian, Dolan Raymond J
Functional Imaging Laboratory, Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, University College London, London, UK.
Cereb Cortex. 2009 Jan;19(1):187-96. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhn076. Epub 2008 May 13.
Animal research suggests that the consolidation of fear and extinction memories depends on N-methyl D-aspartate (NMDA)-type glutamate receptors. Using a fear conditioning and extinction paradigm in healthy normal volunteers, we show that postlearning administration of the NMDA partial agonist D-cycloserine (DCS) facilitates fear memory consolidation, evidenced behaviorally by enhanced skin conductance responses, relative to placebo, for presentations of a conditioned stimulus (CS) at a memory test performed 72 h later. DCS also enhanced CS-evoked neural responses in a posterior hippocampus/collateral sulcus region and in the medial prefrontal cortex at test. Our data suggest a role for NMDA receptors in regulating fear memory consolidation in humans.
动物研究表明,恐惧记忆和消退记忆的巩固依赖于N-甲基-D-天冬氨酸(NMDA)型谷氨酸受体。在健康正常志愿者中采用恐惧条件反射和消退范式,我们发现,与安慰剂相比,在学习后给予NMDA部分激动剂D-环丝氨酸(DCS)可促进恐惧记忆巩固,在72小时后进行的记忆测试中,条件刺激(CS)呈现时增强的皮肤电导反应即为行为学证据。在测试时,DCS还增强了后海马/侧副沟区域以及内侧前额叶皮质中CS诱发的神经反应。我们的数据表明NMDA受体在调节人类恐惧记忆巩固中发挥作用。