ArticleScientific reports2021
Investigating the effect of a nap following experimental trauma on analogue PTSD symptoms.
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- 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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- Sleep to remember, sleep to protect: increased sleep spindle and theta activity predict fewer intrusive memories after analogue trauma.Translational psychiatry · 2026Trial
- Mechanisms through which sleep influences intrusive memories: protocol for a trauma film paradigm study.Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society · 2026Article
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- From childhood adversity to latent stress vulnerability in adulthood: the mediating roles of sleep disturbances and HPA axis dysfunction.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2023Review
- Infra-Low-Frequency Neurofeedback Treatment in Dysthymia: A Case Study.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- The potential beneficial effect of sleep deprivation following traumatic events to preventing PTSD: Review of current insight regarding sleep, memory, and trauma resonating with ancient rituals-Àìsùn Oku (African) and Tsuya (Japanese).Neuropsychopharmacology reports · 2023Review
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- Sleep and PTSD in the Military Forces: A Reciprocal Relationship and a Psychiatric Approach.Brain sciences · 2021Review
- Does Sleep Selectively Strengthen Certain Memories Over Others Based on Emotion and Perceived Future Relevance?Nature and science of sleep · 2021Review
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Abstract
Cognitive models assume that the incomplete integration of a traumatic experience into the autobiographical memory results in typical symptoms associated with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) such as intrusive re-experiencing. Sleep supports the integration of new experiences into existing memory networks through memory consolidation. In fifty-six females, we investigated whether a 90-min daytime nap (n = 33) compared to a wake period (n = 23) after being exposed to an experimental trauma (i.e. a trauma film) prevents PTSD analogue symptoms. Intrusive memories were recorded for seven days using a diary, overall PTSD symptoms were assessed using the Impact of Event Scale (IES-R) and affective response to trauma cues were measured one week after experimental trauma. The two groups did not differ in any of the analogue PTSD symptoms. However, participants obtaining rapid eye movement (REM) sleep in the nap experienced less distressing intrusive memories. Moreover, the duration of REM sleep and slow wave activity was negatively correlated with analogue PTSD symptoms. Our findings suggest that even a short sleep period after experimental trauma can play a protective role in trauma memory formation but only if the nap contains REM sleep. Our data provide additional evidence for a critical role of REM sleep in PTSD development.
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