Memory: Multiple memory systems: the power of interactions.

Entrez PubMed: "Two relatively simple theories of brain function will be used to demonstrate the explanatory power of multiple memory systems in your brain interacting cooperatively or competitively to directly or indirectly influence cognition and behaviour. The view put forth in this mini-review is that interactions between memory systems produce normal and abnormal manifestations of behaviour, and by logical extension, an understanding of these complex interactions holds the key to understanding debilitating brain and psychiatric disorders.

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
Volume 82, Issue 3 , November 2004, Pages 333-346
Multiple Memory Systems

Multiple memory systems: The power of interactions

Robert J. McDonald, , a, Bryan D. Devanb and Nancy S. Honga

a Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada T1K 3M4
b Behavioral Neuroscience Section, Laboratory of Experimental Gerontology, Gerontology Research Center, National Institute on Aging, NIH, Baltimore, MD, USA

Received 9 March 2004; Revised 18 May 2004; accepted 20 May 2004. Available online 9 July 2004.

Abstract
Two relatively simple theories of brain function will be used to demonstrate the explanatory power of multiple memory systems in your brain interacting cooperatively or competitively to directly or indirectly influence cognition and behaviour. The view put forth in this mini-review is that interactions between memory systems produce normal and abnormal manifestations of behaviour, and by logical extension, an understanding of these complex interactions holds the key to understanding debilitating brain and psychiatric disorders.

Author Keywords: Interactions; Memory; Hippocampus; Dorsal striatum; Amygdala; Prefrontal cortex; Nucleus accumbens; Anxiety; Depression; Fear; Obsessive–compulsive disorder; Schizophrenia; Drug addiction; Drug abuse"


Multiple memory systems: the power of interactions.
McDonald RJ, Devan BD, Hong NS.
Neurobiol Learn Mem. 2004 Nov;82(3):333-46.