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Cognitive neuroscience perspective on memory: overview and summary
Memory is a complex cognitive function with stages like encoding, consolidation, retrieval, and reconsolidation. It involves different brain systems, categorized into working, declarative, and non-declarative types.
Neurofunctional underpinnings of individual differences in visual episodic memory performance
Studies on human episodic memory often don't consider individual differences in memory performance or how memorable an item is. Large-scale studies are needed to better understand brain activity's role in memory variation.
Locating causal hubs of memory consolidation in spontaneous brain network in male mice
Researchers investigated brain networks crucial for memory consolidation after learning. They identified specific network hubs that are essential for long-term memory formation during periods of rest following new experiences.
Mapping Home, Memory and Spatial Recovery in Forced Displacement
The UK asylum system leaves displaced people in precarious situations, intensifying psychological trauma. Creative spatial practices, like deep-mapping, can foster recovery and belonging by helping individuals remake a sense of home.
Watkinson v. Dep’t of Corr.
The AK Supreme Court revived a solitary confinement emotional distress claim. The Court recognized isolation’s potential for psychological trauma based on medical and scientific evidence.
McCalop v. State
The Georgia Supreme Court accepted expert testimony on PTSD, finding it a more scientific explanation for trauma’s effects on perception and memory than battered person syndrome.
State v. Whitetail
The North Dakota Supreme Court upheld a murder conviction, finding the defendant's PTSD claim did not negate intent. Expert testimony and video evidence supported knowing and intentional conduct.
Shepard v. State
The court upheld a death sentence. It found testimony on childhood trauma and PTSD was properly considered as mitigating evidence.
Brief of Bronx Defenders, Brooklyn Defender Services, Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, NY County Defender Services, and Queens Defenders as Amici Curiae in Support of Plaintiffs’ Motion for Contempt and Application for Appointment of a Receiver
This brief supports a motion to hold New York City's Department of Correction in contempt and appoint a receiver. It argues jail violence and dysfunction are intolerable, violating detainees' rights and the court's consent decree.
Brief of Amici Curiae American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island, Aaron Regunberg and Leonela Felix in Support of Affirmance
This brief argues that prison officials should not receive qualified immunity. It asserts their prolonged solitary confinement of an inmate caused severe mental and physical harm, violating the Eighth Amendment.
Brief of Former Corrections Executives as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioner and Reversal of the Seventh Circuit
Prolonged solitary confinement causes severe harm, is costly, and ineffective. For people with serious mental illness, it intensifies issues, creating a harmful cycle with no clear penological justification.
Brief of Brock Chisholm, Sondra Crosby, Beatrice Patsalides Hofmann, David Luban, and Stephen N. Xenakis as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioner
This brief argues that using information obtained through torture is illegal and deeply harms the justice system. It asserts such evidence can never be considered "harmless error" and calls for reversal of a previous ruling.
Internal capsule microstructure mediates the relationship between childhood maltreatment and PTSD following adulthood trauma exposure
Childhood trauma may increase the risk of adult post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) by altering specific brain white matter. These brain changes were identified as potential indicators of PTSD susceptibility following a recent trauma.
Structural Inequities Contribute to Racial/Ethnic Differences in Neurophysiological Tone, but Not Threat Reactivity, After Trauma Exposure
This study found race-related differences in brain responses to threat and trauma outcomes. Socioeconomic factors partially explained these differences, which have implications for PTSD prediction and treatment.
The Effect of Parents and Peers on the Neural Correlates of Risk Taking and Antisocial Behavior During Adolescence
This study investigated how parent closeness and deviant peer affiliation in early adolescence, along with brain activation during risky decision-making, contribute to later antisocial behavior in adolescent girls.