The hormonal Zeitgeber melatonin: role as a circadian modulator in memory processing
- The neuroendocrine substance melatonin is a hormone synthesized rhythmically by the pineal gland under the influence of the circadian system and alternating light/dark cycles. Melatonin has been shown to have broad applications, and consequently becoming a molecule of great controversy. Undoubtedly, however, melatonin plays an important role as a time cue for the endogenous circadian system. This review focuses on melatonin as a regulator in the circadian modulation of memory processing. Memory processes (acquisition, consolidation, and retrieval) are modulated by the circadian system. However, the mechanism by which the biological clock is rhythmically influencing cognitive processes remains unknown. We also discuss, how the circadian system by generating cycling melatonin levels can implant information about daytime into memory processing, depicted as day and nighttime differences in acquisition, memory consolidation and/or retrieval.
| Author: | Oliver RawashdehORCiD, Erik MarondeORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-243479 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3389/fnmol.2012.00027 |
| ISSN: | 1662-5099 |
| Pubmed Id: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22408602 |
| Parent Title (English): | Frontiers in molecular neuroscience |
| Publisher: | Frontiers Research Foundation |
| Place of publication: | Lausanne |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2012/05/25 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2012/03/06 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2012/05/25 |
| Tag: | circadian rhythms; hormone; learning; melatonin; memory; pineal; zebrafish |
| Volume: | 5 |
| Issue: | Article 27 |
| Page Number: | 6 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 30395177X |
| Institutes: | Medizin / Medizin |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung 3.0 |
