Sleep Can Accentuate Positive Memories In Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Main Category: Sleep / Sleep Disorders / Insomnia
Also Included In: Neurology / Neuroscience;  Anxiety / Stress
Article Date: 03 Apr 2012 4:00 PDT

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Sleep plays a absolute purpose in preserving a memories. But while new examine shows that wakefulness might cloud memories of disastrous or dire events, a new examine has found that wakefulness also degrades certain memories. Sleep, it seems, protects certain memories usually as it does disastrous ones, and that has critical implications for a diagnosis of post-traumatic highlight disorder.

The examine of how nap helps us remember and routine romantic information is still young, says Alexis Chambers of a University of Notre Dame. Past work has focused on a purpose of disastrous memories for sleep, in sold how insomnia is a healthy biological response for people to revoke disastrous memories an...