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As another year has quickly flown by, we take this opportunity to reflect on a successful annual Congress held in Tel Aviv-Yafo. The following presentation of the rich array of accepted talks that took place at our 22nd Annual Congress serves to highlight the current strength of neuropsychoanalysis and its depth and diversity when it comes to both the scientific and clinical content that it is eliciting. We are extremely grateful to our wonderful community for contributing their clinical and research work to the proceedings. We trust that the reader will enjoy the following summary of the research and symposium abstracts from the Congress and be inspired to make submissions to present at our future congresses.
Ross Balchin
Associate Editor
Email: rbalchin@npsa-association.org
Friday 7 July
Plenary symposium: Memory meets PLAY: Three perspectives from neuroscience
Mouna Maroun
Memory of fear and social interaction: Age and sex-dependent
Some memories are easy to decay, others are for a lifetime. It is well known that emotional memory and especially fear associations are acquired in one trial learning and are hard to extinguish. Most of our knowledge on the mechanisms mediating fear and extinction were obtained from adult male rodents. Much less is known whether these mechanisms are the same in the juvenile animal or in females. We have a plethora of data addressing differences between adult and juvenile rats in their mechanisms of extinction while mainly focusing on the neuromodulator oxytocin. Oxytocin is critical for social behavior; our studies shed light on the interaction between social behavior and extinction of fear while addressing possible differences between adults and juveniles, males and females. These findings can be relevant when considering how to treat boys and girls suffering from stress-related disorders.
Mouna M