Any disruption of homeostasis causes a stress response that serves to restore balance in the body. Stress hormone levels, such as glucocorticoids, strongly influence the consolidation of episodic memory dependent on the hippocampus. Sleep has beneficial effects on individual types of memory and is necessary for the proper course of consolidation of newly acquired information. Little is known, however, about neuronal processes of memory consolidation for a traumatic event. The topic of this work is to study the combination of these two factors and to determine the effect of elevated levels of corticosterone and sleep on the consolidation of traumatic memory in rats. The theoretical part of this work summarizes the knowledge about memory, sleep and stress. The practical part deals with the experimental procedure combining behavioral (fear conditioning), electrophysiological methods (EEG recording and determination of sleep stages) and pharmacological manipulation (intrahippocampal administration of corticosterone). In summary, we found the effect of high levels of corticosterone in the hippocampus on contextual memory consolidation and on the amount of slow wave sleep. These results can bring new features in the field of traumatic memory consolidation and associated post-traumatic stress disorder....
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:393518 |
| Date | January 2019 |
| Creators | Brukhnová, Alena |
| Contributors | Kelemen, Eduard, Kopřivová, Jana |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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