题 目：Changing memories, Changing selves
（改变记忆，改变自我）
主讲人： Daniela Schiller（Icahn school of medicine at Mount Sinai）
时 间：2017年3月8 日（星期三）下午3：00-5：00
地 点：心理学院五楼学术报告厅
报告人简介：
Dr. Daniela Schiller earned both a bachelor’s degree in psychology and philosophy and a Ph.D. in psychobiology from Tel Aviv University. In 2005 she began working as a postdoctoral fellow at New York University, where she conducted a groundbreaking study that focused on memory reconsolidation and the blocking or update of fearful memories. Dr. Schiller’s work has been published in numerous scholarly journals, including Nature, Neuron and Nature Neuroscience. She has also served as a contributing author for books, such as The Human Amygdala. Schiller has been the recipient of several awards, including the Fulbright postdoctoral award, the New York Academy of Sciences Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists, and the Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship award in the Neurosciences, for her research on how to rewire the brain to eradicate fear as a response to memory. Dr. Schiller is currently an Associate Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience and Friedman Brain Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, where she directs the affective neuroscience laboratory.
Daniela Schiller, 美国西奈山伊坎医学院精神病学和神经学副教授，拥有特拉维夫大学心理学与哲学双学士学位、生理心理学博士学位，纽约大学博士后。2005起在进行博士后研究期间，Schiller教授做出了开创性研究，她发现在记忆再巩固时间窗内进行行为训练能有效阻止恐惧自发恢复，成果刊登于Nature杂志。Schiller教授近年来的研究成果均刊登于Nature, Neuron, Nature Neuroscience，Trends in Neuroscience, PNAS等高水平杂志上。同时参与编写多本学术专著，如The Human Amygdala (《人类杏仁核》)。她在恐惧记忆方面的研究获得富布赖特博士后奖, 纽约科学院颁发的布拉瓦尼克奖青年科学家奖, 以及神经科学类的克林根施坦-西蒙斯奖。Schiller教授目前就职于纽约西奈山伊坎医学院的精神病学与神经科学系，以及弗里德曼脑科学研究所，同时她还拥有自己的情绪神经科学实验室。
报告摘要:
When emotional memories become traumatic, we can learn to suppress or regulate the emotions they elicit, but is it possible to modify the original memory and prevent the return of fear altogether? Evidence in the last two decades indicates that this might be possible using pharmacological as well as non-invasive manipulations. The talk will describe studies testing this possibility in humans by examining whether laboratory induced emotional memories can be modified or permanently blocked using drug-free behavioral manipulations. Beyond basic threat processing, higher cognitive functions such as imagination and social information processing may also contribute to emotional resilience, studies using naturalistic protocols assessing these processes will be discussed.
当情绪性记忆变成创伤，人类就会尝试去抑制或调控情绪，但是否可以通过更改原始记忆来防止恐惧返回呢？过去二十年的研究表明，我们或许可以使用药物和一些非侵入性手段（如：行为训练），来达到更改原始恐惧记忆的效果。此次报告Schiller教授将会介绍一些在人类身上使用非药物手段干预恐惧记忆的研究，通过观察实验室诱发的情绪记忆是否能被行为训练改写或永久抑制来探究这些手段的效果。另，由于人类情绪的改变不止可以由初级威胁加工过程诱发，同时还可能被更为高级的认知加工过程（如：想象和社会信息的加工）所诱发，故届时Schiller教授还会探讨一些更具生态效度的自然范式。