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Nature Neuroscience 11, 1241 - 1242 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nn1108-1241

Destroying memories to strengthen them

Jerry W Rudy1

  1. The author is in the Department of Psychology and Center for Neuroscience, UCB 345, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA.
    e-mail: Jrudy@psych.colorado.edu


A paper in this issue reports that the core mechanisms that strengthen memories have more in common with the mechanisms that support reconsolidation than those that participate in their initial storage.

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