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I would like to write my paper about the symptoms of dissociative amnesia and memory deficits in PTSD. I hope to make it review style, addressing the pathways that lead to these memory deficits and explore rescue studies as well. I am interested about the various modeling methods researchers use to study PTSD and memory loss and this would obviously be heavily explored within my paper as well. The five sources I’ve chosen for my article are found below.

 

1)         Fenster, R.J., Lebois, L.A.M., Ressler, K. et al. Brain circuit dysfunction in post-traumatic stress disorder: from mouse to man. Nat Rev Neurosci 19, 535–551 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41583-018-0039-7

  

2)         Zhang, Y.P., Cai, J., Shields, L.B.E. et al. Traumatic Brain Injury Using Mouse Models. Transl. Stroke Res. 5, 454–471 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12975-014-0327-0

 

3)         Dean T. Acheson, Jodi E. Gresack, Victoria B. Risbrough. Hippocampal dysfunction effects on context memory: Possible etiology for posttraumatic stress disorder. Neuropharmacology, Volume 62, Issue 2, 674-685 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropharm.2011.04.029

4)         Kaouane, N. et al. Glucocorticoids can induce PTSD-like memory impairments in mice. Science 335, 1510–1513 (2012). DOI: 10.1126/science.1207615

5)         Malikowska-Racia, N., Podkowa, A. & Sałat, K. Phencyclidine and Scopolamine for Modeling Amnesia in Rodents: Direct Comparison with the Use of Barnes Maze Test and Contextual Fear Conditioning Test in Mice. Neurotox Res 34, 431–441 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12640-018-9901-7

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