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Nature Neuroscience 10, 540 - 542 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nn0507-540
Of sleep, memories and trauma
Robert Stickgold1
- 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
Abstract
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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