The authors are in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior and the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92697, USA. tcarew@uci.edu, msutton@uci.edu
After a learning experience, memories are vulnerable to disruption during a consolidation period. Antisense against the transcription factor C/EBP in the hippocampus is now reported to disrupt the initial consolidation of memories, but not their 'reconsolidation' after later recall.