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time icon March 23, 2017

Novel Discovery in Modulating Fear Memory

Technology description

Background:Modulatingfearmemory provides treatments for certain anxietydisorders,such as post-traumatic stressdisorder. The way to do this is to effectively modify cognitive function and brain activity.

Description:Researchers at UC Riverside have invented methods that specifically screen and modify the brain function of an individual.They have targeted the area in the brain that is distinctive to fear memories, the prefrontal cortex, and provided ways to administer compounds and test for changes in brain function. The UCR Office of Technology commercialization believes the researchers' methods have potential in fear memory conditioning and treatment for a number of anxiety related disorders.

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Image: In red, the View of medial Prefrontal Cortexhas a role in regulating fear memory.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prefrontal_cortex_(left)_-_medial_view.png




Application area

  • Therapeutics
  • Screening
  • Conditioning for anxiety related disorders

Advantages

  • Specificity
  • Improves fear conditioning
  • Methods can be used on non-human subjects for further research

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Categories
  • Neurology
  • Psychiatry
  • Diagnosis and treatment
Keywords:

technology commercialization believes

anxiety related disorders

fear memory conditioning

regulating fear memory

medial prefrontal cortexhas

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