“…DA prolongs long-term potentiation (LTP; Frey et al, 1990Frey et al, , 1993Huang and Kandel, 1995), a cellular mechanism necessary for successful memory formation and consolidation (for review, see Cooke and Bliss, 2006). In humans, molecular imaging studies have related higher D2 receptor binding in hippocampus to better recall of verbal (Takahashi et al, 2007) and pictorial (Takahashi et al, 2008) memory. Relatedly, striatal D2 receptor density has been associated with better performance across different episodic memory tasks (Bäckman et al, 2000;Cervenka et al, 2008).…”