Michael C. Anderson

@memorycontrol.bsky.social

Neuroscientist at MRC Cognition an Brain Sciences Unit at the University of Cambridge, studying memory, cognitive control, and mechanisms of adaptive forgetting

To my complete surprise, our Nature Reviews Neuroscience review on the Brain Mechanisms Underlying the Inhibitory Control of Thought has landed on the cover! Cover art below! For an "explainer thread", see earlier tweet. bsky.app/profile/memo... @mrccbu.bsky.social #neuroskyence #memory #ptsd

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Michael C. Anderson@memorycontrol.bsky.social · last yr.

How does the brain stop thoughts? Find out in my article in @natrevneuro.nature.com with Subbu Subbulakshmi & Maite Crespo-Garcia www.nature.com/articles/s41... that integrates 25 yrs of psychology and neuroscience on this vital function.@mrccbu.bsky.social sky.social #neuroskyence #neuroscience

Suppressing memories promotes resilience! Terrorist attack survivors who recovered from PTSD showed normalised inhibitory control of the hippocampus during retrieval stopping before intrusive memory declines, mitigating hippocampal atrophy. #memory #PTSD #neuroskyence www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Plasticity of human resilience mechanisms

PTSD remission is linked to improved fronto-hippocampal inhibitory mechanisms during memory control.

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Can someone forget much of their life? Yes! In Psychogenic amnesia, extreme stress leads to the loss of years of memories, including all the people the patient knows. Why? Read about what we have discovered in @laura-marsh.bsky.social‬ 's new paper or in the outstanding thread below #neuroskyence

Laura Marsh@laura-marsh.bsky.social · 2y ago

Happy to share our new paper on the inhibition of memory retrieval in dissociative amnesia, with @dcdace.bsky.social, Hirokazu Kikuchi, Nobuhito Abe &, Jun Kawaguchi, Mike Kopelman & @memorycontrol.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S003...

Sleep much? I hope so! A new fMRI study with @harrington-mo.bsky.social and @sacairney.bsky.social shows how inducing sleep loss impairs the prefrontal cortex's ability to suppress unwanted memories, and suggests that REM sleep restores this function.Congrats Marcus! @sleepdiplomat.bsky.social

Marcus O. Harrington@harrington-mo.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨 Our study on how sleep deprivation affects the neural correlates of memory suppression is now published in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Are you a fan with the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit? If so, read this Science story and then join the 500 scientists (inc two Nobels and two former Royal Society heads), who are asking the MRC to adjust course by signing the Open Letter linked in the story. www.science.org/content/arti...

Funding overhaul threatens historic U.K. research units

Scientists protest new “challenge-led” grants replacing funding that supported long-term basic research

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Not that anyone here needs a reason to ditch twitter, BUT...I only just noticed that my twitter timeline is full of posts by people I don't follow. This is because, as of March, Musk introduced an algorithm to do this, based on what I have liked. Aggravating. I had liked my self-curated newsfeed.