Long-term potentiation and memory processes in the psychological works of Sigmund Freud and in the formation of neuropsychiatric symptoms.

Abstract:

:Far from disproving the model of mind functioning proposed by psychoanalysis, the recent advances in neuropsychiatrical research confirmed the crucial ideas of Sigmund Freud. The hypothesis that the origin of mental illnesses lies in the impossibility for a subject to erase the long-term effects of a remote adverse event is in tune with the view that several psychiatric disturbances reflect the activation of aberrant unconscious memory processes. Freud's insights did not stop here, but went on to describe in an extremely precise manner the neural mechanisms of memory formation almost a century before the description of long-term synaptic potentiation.

journal_name

Neuroscience

journal_title

Neuroscience

authors

Centonze D,Siracusano A,Calabresi P,Bernardi G

doi

10.1016/j.neuroscience.2004.09.032

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subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2005-01-01 00:00:00

pages

559-65

issue

3

eissn

0306-4522

issn

1873-7544

pii

S0306-4522(04)00867-X

journal_volume

130

pub_type

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