Trial reportSleep2016
Effects of Sleep after Experimental Trauma on Intrusive Emotional Memories.
Trial report in Sleep, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 61 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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61 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- A systematic review and meta-analysis of experimental methods for modulating intrusive memories following lab-analogue trauma exposure in non-clinical populations.Nature human behaviour · 2024Pooled it
- Effect of sleep manipulations on intrusive memories after exposure to an experimental analogue trauma: A meta-analytic review.Sleep medicine reviews · 2023Pooled it
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- Intrusive memories of trauma: A target for research bridging cognitive science and its clinical application.Clinical psychology review · 2019Pooled it
- Can't get it out of my mind: A systematic review of predictors of intrusive memories of distressing events.Psychological bulletin · 2018Pooled it
- Effects of doxycycline on intrusive experimental trauma memory: a pre-registered, randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial.Translational psychiatry · 2026Trial
- Sleep to remember, sleep to protect: increased sleep spindle and theta activity predict fewer intrusive memories after analogue trauma.Translational psychiatry · 2026Trial
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- Investigation of the impact of total sleep deprivation at home on the number of intrusive memories to an analogue trauma.Translational psychiatry · 2019Trial
- Slow Oscillation-Sleep Spindle Coupling Is Associated With Expectancy Measures of Fear Extinction Retention in Trauma-Exposed Individuals.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2026Article
- Temporal associations between nightmares and PTSD symptoms in the acute post-sexual assault period: An ecological momentary assessment study.Journal of mood and anxiety disorders · 2026Article
- Mechanisms through which sleep influences intrusive memories: protocol for a trauma film paradigm study.Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society · 2026Article
- Differential Associations Between Sleep Domains and Response to Prolonged Exposure Therapy.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Nighttime is the right time: the time interval to overnight sleep following an embarrassing experience does not influence long-term emotional responses to its reactivated episode.Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society · 2025Article
- Targeted memory reactivation during REM sleep may selectively enhance the late positive potential amplitude in previously encountered negative images: preliminary findings.Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society · 2025Article
- Implications for optimizing treatment timing: day of week variation in PTSD symptom clusters.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
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- Understanding Fatigue, Insomnia, and COVID-19 PTSS Among Mainland Chinese During Initial Post-Zero-COVID Infection Wave: A Multi-Group Analysis.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Prospective Bidirectional Relationship Between Sleep Duration and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms After Suspected Acute Coronary Syndrome.Psychosomatic medicine · 2024Observational
- Molecular mechanisms and therapeutic possibilities of short-chain fatty acids in posttraumatic stress disorder patients: a mini-review.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Review
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Abstract
STUDY
objectivesTo investigate sleep's effect in the immediate aftermath of experiencing an analog trauma in the laboratory on reducing intrusive emotional memory formation.
methodsSixty-five healthy women were exposed to an experimental laboratory trauma. They viewed a neutral and a trauma film in the laboratory and were randomly allocated to either a group that slept following film viewing or a group that remained awake. Sleep was recorded with electroencephalogram in a subgroup of participants in the sleep group. All participants recorded intrusive memories in the week following the film.
resultsThe sleep group experienced fewer and less distressing intrusive trauma memories compared to the wake group. These effects were particularly evident toward the end of the week. Duration spent in stage N2 as opposed to light N1 sleep, a higher number of fast parietal sleep spindles and a lower rapid eye movement sleep density predicted intrusion frequency.
conclusionsOur results have clinical implications and set the ground for early-intervention sleep studies following trauma and prevention of chronic posttrauma disorders.
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