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ArticleNeurobiology of learning and memory2019

Limited replicability of drug-induced amnesia after contextual fear memory retrieval in rats.

Natalie Schroyens, Joaquín Matias Alfei, Anna Elisabeth Schnell, Laura Luyten, Tom Beckers

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Article in Neurobiology of learning and memory, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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8citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Natalie SchroyensCentre for the Psychology of Learning and Experimental Psychopathology, Department of Psychology, KU Leuven, Tiensestraat 102 bus 3712, 3000 Leuven, Belgium. Electronic address: natalie.schroyens@kuleuven.be.
Joaquín Matias AlfeiCentre for the Psychology of Learning and Experimental Psychopathology, Department of Psychology, KU Leuven, Tiensestraat 102 bus 3712, 3000 Leuven, Belgium. Electronic address: joaquin.alfei@kuleuven.be.
Anna Elisabeth SchnellCentre for the Psychology of Learning and Experimental Psychopathology, Department of Psychology, KU Leuven, Tiensestraat 102 bus 3712, 3000 Leuven, Belgium; Laboratory of Biological Psychology, Department of Psychology, KU Leuven, Tiensestraat 102 bus 3712, 3000 Leuven, Belgium(2). Electronic address: annaelisabeth.schnell@kuleuven.be.
Laura LuytenCentre for the Psychology of Learning and Experimental Psychopathology, Department of Psychology, KU Leuven, Tiensestraat 102 bus 3712, 3000 Leuven, Belgium. Electronic address: laura.luyten@kuleuven.be.
Tom BeckersCentre for the Psychology of Learning and Experimental Psychopathology, Department of Psychology, KU Leuven, Tiensestraat 102 bus 3712, 3000 Leuven, Belgium; Leuven Brain Institute, 3000 Leuven, Belgium. Electronic address: tom.beckers@kuleuven.be.
KU Leuven · BEVIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research · BE

Funding

European Research Council 648176
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With the ultimate goal of investigating boundary conditions for post-reactivation amnesia, we set out to replicate studies in which systemic, post-reactivation administration of midazolam, propranolol, or cycloheximide resulted in amnesia for contextual fear memories. Our experiments involved conceptual as well as exact replications of previously published studies. In most of our experiments, we adopted a procedure that conformed to the standard 3-day protocol typically used in the literature, with contextual fear conditioning on day 1, unreinforced re-exposure to the conditioning context followed by systemic injection of the amnestic drug on day 2, and a memory retention test on day 3. Given the plethora of successful studies with large effects sizes and the absence of any failed replications in the literature, we were surprised to find that we were generally unable to replicate those findings. Our results suggest that post-reactivation amnesia by systemic drug administration in rats is more difficult to obtain than what would be expected based on published empirical reports. At present, it remains unclear which conditions determine the success of this procedure.

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AmnesiaAnimalsConditioning, PsychologicalFearHypnotics and SedativesMental RecallMidazolamPropranololRatsRats, Sprague-DawleyRats, WistarReproducibility of ResultsHypnotics and SedativesMidazolamPropranololContextual fear memoryMidazolamPost-reactivation amnesiaPropranololRatsReconsolidation

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PMID31705982
PMCPMC7145453
OpenAlexW2985313795

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