Investigation of early night sleep effects on subsequent fear extinction learning and recall

Extinction learning is considered an important underlying process of successful treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, sleep disturbances may impede this learning process: Current accounts postulate that sleep facilitates encoding by promoting neural plasticity during slow wave...

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Main Authors: Edith Friesen, M. Roxanne Sopp, Alexandra H. Brueckner, Diana Ferreira de Sá, Tanja Michael
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2022-04-01
Series:Journal of Experimental Psychopathology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/20438087221090350