Abstract
The symposium “Memory manipulation as a therapeutic tool in psychiatry” is organized by Joseph Zophar (Sheba Medical Center, Israel) , who could not join the symposium due to unexpected accidents in his family just before the Congress. There were three speakers in the program; Masatoshi Takeda (Osaka University, Japan) “Early intervention in Alzheimerʼs disease” , Joseph Zohar (Sheba Medical Center, Israel) “Prevention of traumatic memory consolidation as a therapeutic tool in PTSD,” and John Krytal (Yale Iniversity, USA) “Enhancing neuroplasticity with D - cycloserine: Implications for the treatment of anxiety and cognitive disorders.”
Masatoshi Takeda talked about the mechanism of memory dydfunction in the early stage of Alzheimerʼs disease in which possible involvement of several genes are considered. He pointed out simple stimulation of neurogenesis in the hippocampus will not benefit the dysfunction of the early dementia patients.
John Krystal talked about the possibility of D- cycloserine treatment to schizophrenia patients, in which D- cycloserine may modulate the hyperactive aberrant neural circuit so that the patients can be ready for incorporating psychotherapeutic intervention.
