Augmented Psychotherapies

Augmented Psychotherapies

Malek Bajbouj

 

Published in The Neuropsychotherapist Issue #1

 
Normally, successful psychotherapy depends on the art of modulating memory contents, such as in fear extinction. The common understanding has followed the model that such memory modulation or learning processes in general lead to lasting changes at the level of our synapses. However, it is now clear that the key factor in conveying such neuroplastic changes is long-term potentiation, and that inhibition of long-term potentiation will lead to a worsening of learning performance. In this light, it is not surprising that an exaggerated long-term depression has been observed in animal models of various psychiatric disorders with memory disturbances.


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Malek Bajbouj M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry and Affective Neuroscience at the Department of Psychiatry, Charité, Berlin, Germany. Co-director, Dahlem Institute for Neuroimaging of Emotion, Berlin, Germany. Adjunct Professor, Department of Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

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