Forgetting Unwanted Memories: Active Forgetting and Implications for the Development of Psychological Disorders.

摘要: Intrusive memories are a common feature of many psychopathologies, and suppression-induced forgetting unwanted appears as critical ability to preserve mental health. In recent years, biological cognitive studies converged in revealing that is due active processes. Recent neurobiological provide evidence on the role main neurotransmitter systems forgetting, suggesting brain actively works suppress retrieval memories. On side, there voluntary involuntary processes (here termed “intentional” “incidental” respectively) contribute forgetting. intentional an inhibitory control mechanism suppresses awareness at encoding or retrieval. incidental practice some involuntarily other related this review we describe findings deficits observed like post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder. Moreover, report which systems, known be involved pathogenesis disorders, has been investigated paradigms. The possibility mechanisms could considered hallmarks early onset psychopathologies also discussed.