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Recent PET data on human sleep suggest functional interactions between the amygdala and the cortex during REM sleep. This amygdalo-cortical interplay might reflect the processing of some types of memory traces.
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Maquet, P., Franck, G. REM sleep and amygdala. Mol Psychiatry 2, 195–196 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.mp.4000239
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