Changing maladaptive memories through reconsolidation: A role for sleep in psychotherapy?

Like Lane et al., we believe that change in psychotherapy comes about by updating dysfunctional memories with new adaptive experiences. We suggest that sleep is essential to (re-)consolidate such corrective experiences. Sleep is well-known to strengthen and integrate new memories into pre-existing n...

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Published in:The Behavioral and brain sciences 2015, Vol.38, p.e6-e6, Article e6
Main Authors: Diekelmann, Susanne, Forcato, Cecilia
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Fear & phobias
Humans
Memory
Open Peer Commentary
Post traumatic stress disorder
Psychopathology
Psychotherapy
Schizophrenia
Sleep
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Summary:Like Lane et al., we believe that change in psychotherapy comes about by updating dysfunctional memories with new adaptive experiences. We suggest that sleep is essential to (re-)consolidate such corrective experiences. Sleep is well-known to strengthen and integrate new memories into pre-existing networks. Targeted sleep interventions might be promising tools to boost this process and thereby increase therapy effectiveness.
ISSN:0140-525X
1469-1825
DOI:10.1017/S0140525X14000156