Viewpoint in 2010

Emotional events result in strong memories, and these are essential for responding appropriately when similar events occur. However, emotional memories are sometimes so strong as to be disabling, as in post-traumatic stress disorder. In this article, Yehuda and Morris discuss these issues from the viewpoints of a clinical and a basic neuroscientist.

To celebrate the first 10 years ofNature Reviews Neuroscience, we invited the authors of the most cited article of each year to look back on the state of their field at the time of publication and the impact their article has had, and to discuss the questions that might be answered in the next 10 years.