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Reconsolidation or re-association?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 June 2015

Sue Llewellyn
Sue Llewellyn*
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Faculty of Humanities, University of Manchester, Manchester M15 6PB, United Kingdom. sue.llewellyn@manchester.ac.uk http://www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk
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Abstract

The target article argues memory reconsolidation demonstrates how therapeutic change occurs, grounding psychotherapy in brain science. However, consolidation has become an ambiguous term, a disadvantage applying also to its derivative – reconsolidation. The concept of re-association (involving active association between memories during rapid eye movement [REM] dreams followed by indexation and network junction instantiation during non-rapid eye movement [NREM] periods) brings greater specificity and explanatory power to the possible brain correlates of therapeutic change.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 38 , 2015 , e13
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