title: Reconsolidation or re-association?
abstract: The target article argues memory reconsolidation demonstrates how therapeutic change occurs, grounding psychotherapy in brain science. However, consolidation has become an ambiguous term, a disadvantage applying also to its derivative - reconsolidation. The concept of re-association (involving active association between memories during rapid eye movement [REM] dreams followed by indexation and network junction instantiation during non-rapid eye movement [NREM] periods) brings greater specificity and explanatory power to the possible brain correlates of therapeutic change.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Humanities, University of Manchester, Manchester M15 6PB, United Kingdom. sue.llewellyn@manchester.ac.uk http://www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk
authors.forename: Sue
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Llewellyn
mesh_terms: D001244:Association; D006801:Humans; D000069077:Memory Consolidation / Q000502:physiology*; D061212:Memory, Episodic; D013811:Psychotherapeutic Processes; D012894:Sleep Stages / Q000502:physiology*