REM sleep and memory reorganization: Potential relevance for psychiatry and psychotherapy

Autor: Annette Sterr, Nina Landmann, Jonathan-Gabriel Maier, C. Baglioni, Christoph Nissen, Kai Spiegelhalder, Lukas Frase, Marion Kuhn, Dieter Riemann
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. 122:28-40
ISSN: 1074-7427
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2015.01.004
Popis: Sleep can foster the reorganization of memory, i.e. the emergence of new memory content that has not directly been encoded. Current neurophysiological and behavioral evidence can be integrated into a model positing that REM sleep particularly promotes the disintegration of existing schemas and their recombination in the form of associative thinking, creativity and the shaping of emotional memory. Particularly, REM sleep related dreaming might represent a mentation correlate for the reconfiguration of memory. In a final section, the potential relevance for psychiatry and psychotherapy is discussed.
Databáze: OpenAIRE