Neuropsychopharmacology

Can we forget emotional memories? In a double-blind, placebo-controlled fMRI study in humans, suppressing the morning cortisol rise disrupts emotional memory retrieval and persistently alters neural memory representations 4 days later nature.com/articles/s41386-0…

Why do some cannabis users never develop addiction while 1/10 progress to cannabis use disorder? A new genetic study reveals that cannabis use vs use disorder are wired differently: distinct brain networks, genes, and biology nature.com/articles/s41386-0…

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This study provides new insights into the mechanism of action of psilocybin, highlighting both sex-specific and schizophrenia-relevant outcomes in mice nature.com/articles/s41386-0…

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This Hot Topics article highlights how interactions among multiple cell types may shape the onset and progression of schizophrenia nature.com/articles/s41386-0…

How does THC affect emotion regulation in PTSD? THC produced dose-related reductions in prefrontal engagement during negative emotion reappraisal, suggesting a role for cannabinoids in re-engaging efficient emotion regulation strategies in PTSD nature.com/articles/s41386-0…

A rank-specific prefrontal-accumbens circuit links alcohol exposure to competitive social behavior nature.com/articles/s41386-0… "

Ketamine reduced pain and pain-related brain activity while increasing dissociation, but these effects did not co-vary behaviorally or neurally, consistent with distinct correlates of its analgesic and dissociative properties nature.com/articles/s41386-0…

In mice, fear conditioning triggers not only freezing, but also proximity-seeking toward a familiar partner. This social response requires an amygdala–hippocampus pathway & oxytocin signaling, and operates independently of freezing via a distinct circuit nature.com/articles/s41386-0…