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Nature Neuroscience 10, 540 - 542 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nn0507-540

Of sleep, memories and trauma

Robert Stickgold1

  1. Robert Stickgold is in the Department of Psychiatry, 330 Brookline Avenue, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA. e-mail: rstickgold@hms.harvard.edu


Contrary to the synaptic homeostasis theory, new work finds that reactivating memories during slow-wave sleep enhances learning and hippocampal activation. This may be useful for treating post-traumatic stress disorder.

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