reconsolidating

Regrouping scattered parts

Reconsolidating is the process of consolidating again—bringing back together what had been unified, then dispersed or weakened.

The term appears in finance when restructuring debt: The company is reconsolidating its loans under a single lender.

In neuroscience, memory reconsolidation describes how retrieved memories become temporarily unstable and must be restabilized in the brain.

memory

engram

Stored neural record

retrieval · encoding · neuroplasticity · synapse · long-term · forgetting · recollection · episodic · declarative · remembrance

strengthening

reinforcing

Making more robust

bolstering · securing · stabilizing · shoring · rebuilding · restoring · reestablishing · firming · buttressing · underpinning

organizational

restructuring

Rearranging an existing framework

centralizing · streamlining · regrouping · combining · realigning · reorganizing · coordinating · harmonizing · rationalizing · reconfiguring

therapeutic

trauma-focused

Oriented toward psychological injury

  • EMDRTrauma therapy using eye movements
  • exposureState of being unprotected
  • processingSystematic operation on data

healing · recovery · psychotherapy · resilience · reprocessing · integration · CBT · mindfulness · cognitive · behavioral

Opposites
unity versus fragmentation

reconsolidatingfragmenting

Breaking into smaller pieces

scattering · dividing · dispersing · splitting · disintegrating

stability versus destabilization

reconsolidatingdestabilizing

Causing loss of equilibrium

undermining · weakening · eroding · unraveling · dismantling

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