The short-term use of benzodiazepines adversely affects multiple areas of cognition, the most notable one being that it interferes with the formation and consolidation of memories of new material and may induce complete anterograde amnesia.

For example, the formation of the modern states of Germany and Italy in the 19th century is closely associated with the wars of expansion and consolidation led by Prussia and Sardinia, respectively.

The EC-hippocampus system plays an important role in autobiographical / declarative / episodic memories and in particular spatial memories including memory formation, memory consolidation, and memory optimization in sleep.

The company has participated in the consolidation of the semiconductor industry since its formation, with acquisitions including:

In 1918 the formation of the United States Railroad Administration resulted in a consolidation of all such services into a single agency, which after the war continued as the Railway Express Agency ( REA ).

There may also be side agreements ( e. g., holdover tenants, delivery contracts, payment holdback for unacceptable repairs ), seller's right of first refusal for resale, declaration of trust, or other entity formation or consolidation ( incorporation, limited partnership investors, etc .).

His directorship in the early 1970s of the Cuban Institute of Instrumental and Cinematographic Arts ( ICAIC ) was instrumental in the formation and consolidation of the nueva trova movement.

This consolidation of services led to the formation of a new airline, British Regional Airline ( BRA Ltd ).

The land is of relatively recent formation, created by drifts taken by the rivers, and subsidence occurs due to natural consolidation as well as to human activities such as drainage, groundwater extraction and methane extraction.

It suggests that the hippocampal formation is only used in systematic consolidation for a temporary and short period of time, until long-term consolidation takes place by other brain structures.

The date 1912 is often identified as the time of the formation of a distinct party, and the history since then can roughly be divided into the following periods ; the early years of the Bolshevik Party in clandestinity and exile, the period of the October Revolution, consolidation of the party as the governing force of the Soviet Union, the Great Purge of the 1930s, Khrushchev and Brezhnev periods, the Gorbachev era of reform which eventually led to the break-up of the party in 1991.

Lapham presided over the formation of one of San Francisco's perennial Charter Review Commissions and the consolidation of the private street railway systems into municipal ownership.

However, opposition from Westmount residents as well as instability in the underlying rock formation forced their consolidation into one station, with the result that the tunnel between Vendôme and Place-Saint-Henri is the longest on the Island of Montreal.

The consolidation of two previously separate institutions, Pittsburgh-Xenia Theological Seminary ( United Presbyterian Church of North America ) and Western Theological Seminary ( Presbyterian Church USA ), led to the formation of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary in 1959.

The traditional date of the first formation of a unified Norwegian kingdom is set to 872 when he defeated the last petty kings who resisted him at the Battle of Hafrsfjord, however the consolidation of his power took many years.

A consolidation of the former Institute of Tropical Medicine and other entities led in 1926 to the formation of the School of Tropical Medicine.

Other historians maintain that the biographical details, and Egyptian background, attributed to Moses imply the existence of a historical political and religious leader who was involved in the consolidation of the Hebrew tribes in Canaan towards the end of the Bronze Age.

One of the major historical trend in the grain trade has been the closure of many smaller elevators, and the consolidation the grain trade to fewer places and among fewer companies.

In December 2006 the town's major employer McBride Forest Industries closed its doors following the historical precedence of forest industry consolidation.

The most typical distinction, in historical terms, is that a metropolitan municipality is usually a consolidation of one urban city and the county in which it is located.

In 1997 PCD completed an extensive campus consolidation and building project, in which two historical buildings, Metcalf and Chace Halls ( 1927 ) were moved to the east side of campus and renovated.

The long-range objective is to bring about consolidation of ownership through use of land exchange authority and through purchase on a moderate scale of inholdings which comprise key tracts for recognized National Forest programs such as recreation development, or which are a source of damage to lands in National Forests and National Grasslands.

William granted some lands to his continental followers from the holding or holdings of one or more specific Englishmen ; at other times, William granted a compact grouping of lands previously held by many different Englishmen to one Norman follower, often to allow for the consolidation of lands around a strategically placed castle.

After an initial period of independent feudal consolidation, Belarusian lands were incorporated into the Kingdom of Lithuania, Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and later in the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth, and the Russian Empire and eventually the Soviet Union.

The annexation of western Macedonia by the Bulgars changed the political situation, Malamir or his successor may have seen a threat in the Serb consolidation, and opted to subjugate them in midst of the conquest of Slav lands.

The Balkan policy of both Maria Theresa and Joseph II reflected the Cameralism promoted by Prince Kaunitz, stressing consolidation of the border lands by reorganization and expansion of the military frontier.

The three lands of Denmark historically formed the Danish kingdom from its unification and consolidation in the 9th century:

The annexation of western Macedonia by the Bulgars changed the political situation, Malamir or Presian may have seen a threat in the Serb consolidation, and opted to subjugate them in midst of the conquest of Slav lands.

Since the early 18th century, Portugal's government had made many efforts to expand the use of Portuguese in all the colony, particularly because its consolidation in Brazil would help guarantee to them the lands in dispute with Spain ( according to various treaties signed in the 18th century, those lands would be ceded to the people who effectively occupied them ).

It is possible that Nadruvia and Skalovia had changed ethnically in the process of Lithuanian penetration to and consolidation of the Baltic lands in the pre-state times.

With the consolidation of the Arab rule in Tbilisi in the 8th century, the political center of Kartli shifted to its southwest, but the Georgian literati of that time afforded to Kartli a broader meaning to denote all those lands of medieval Georgia that were held together by religion, culture, and language.

He worked closely with Apirana Ngata, a member of the Liberal Party, on a number of important issues, and took part in the consolidation of Māori lands in the North Auckland area.

Many construction projects have been completed on these reclaimed lands with many more still under consolidation or development.

Many construction projects have been completed on the reclaimed lands since their creation, but much of it is still under consolidation or development.

" Andrew Slack and the Harry Potter Alliance compare media consolidation in the U. S. to Voldemort's regime in Deathly Hallows and its control over the Daily Prophet and other media saying that " Once Voldemort took over every form of media in the wizarding world, Dumbledore's Army and the Order of the Phoenix formed an independent media movement called ' Potterwatch '.

After a consolidation of the mechanical watch industry in Switzerland during the 1970s, mass production of quartz wristwatches took off under the leadership of the Swatch Group of companies, a Swiss conglomerate with vertical control of the production of Swiss watches and related products.

Supporters of Mao point out that the large number of deaths during the period of consolidation of power after victory in the Chinese Civil War paled in comparison to the number of deaths caused by famine, anarchy, war, and foreign invasion in the years before the Communists took power.

Later he went to Spain and took part in the Battle of Almansa, a major step in the consolidation of Spain under the Bourbons ( 1707 ), where he achieved some important successes.

Gradual consolidation and eastward expansion took place over the next 150 years ; however, by the beginning of the nineteenth century, Dutch power had substantially waned.

In 1879, another consolidation took place with the Wabash Railroad.

From the late Middle Ages onwards, a gradual movement towards consolidation took place as small plots were amalgamated into fewer but larger holdings, with a corresponding increase in the power of the landowners.

With the consolidation and expansion of Silla and intensification of military rivalries among the Three Kingdoms in the 6th century, the Silla court took a more active interest in the Hwarang.

Many Zoroastrians suggested a consolidation of the calendars: no consensus could be reached, though some took this opportunity to switch to the Fasli observance.

After the consolidation of the Jiangxi Soviet, a number of USSR-trained Communist Party leaders arrived and took power in the Soviet: Peng, like most communist military leaders, supported their leadership until the Jiangxi Soviet was eventually overrun.

Further consolidation among Tegel's German airlines took place when Air Berlin entered into an agreement to assume Germania's management shortly before the death of that airline's founder, took over DBA and gained control of LTU.

With the establishment of Setagaya Ward ( an ordinary ward ) in the old Tokyo City in 1932, and further consolidation in 1936, Setagaya took its present boundaries.

The poorer owners often sold their holdings, which were usually very small, and consolidation into the present farms took place.

* As Prime Minister, in 1999, took Poland into NATO and prepared the country for integration into the European Union ( including decentralisation of the State – consolidation of the role of local self-government );

The MRE took part to the consolidation of The Olive Tree as a joint electoral list both for the 2004 European Parliament election and the 2006 general election, along with the Democrats of the Left and Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy.

The convention agreed on a framework for consolidation of the eight roads ( as well as two " paper " roads, which had not yet been built but were planned ), and Corning took the convention's application to the state Legislature.

The tritium facilities modernization and consolidation project completed start-up and replaced the gas purification and processing that took place in 232-H. WSRC began multi-stage layoffs of permanent employees.

The new regime generally favoured partial consolidation into broadened strips, which was less individualistic, and this was the form that consolidation usually took.

Refusing hospitalisation he returned to his section and ensured the consolidation of the ground gained which took a further two hours of fighting.

The consolidation of this sub-genre ( indigenism ) is found in two famous novels by José de Alencar: The Guarani, about a family of Portuguese colonists who took Indians as servants but were later slain by an enemy tribe, and Iracema, about a Portuguese shipwrecked man who lives among the Indians and marries a beautiful Indian woman.

This consolidation took the form of a reduction in capacity from 15, 000 to 12, 000 and the loss of some of the additional venues that were added to the 2007 event – namely the Roots Stage, the Algorithm arts space and the Nectar arts / talks space.

When Mahone could not persuade the V & T board, he took another route to force consolidation, and worked diligently in lobbying the Virginia General Assembly, a part-owner of all three roads, to gain the legislation necessary to combine them into a single entity, and expand westward.