Sleep and memory: mechanisms and implications for psychiatry
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PubMed ID
28858009
Description
PURPOSE OF REVIEW:
This review discusses current concepts on the relationship between sleep, memory formation and underlying neural refinements, with a particular focus on possible ways to use or modulate sleep in a targeted manner to augment psychiatric and psychotherapeutic treatments.
RECENT FINDINGS:
The most promising lines of research with regard to psychiatry and psychotherapy center on the targeted implementation or modulation of sleep to augment existing or create novel forms of treatment.
SUMMARY:
The modulation of sleep and interconnected neural plasticity processes provides a window of opportunity for developing novel treatments in psychiatry and psychotherapy.
This review discusses current concepts on the relationship between sleep, memory formation and underlying neural refinements, with a particular focus on possible ways to use or modulate sleep in a targeted manner to augment psychiatric and psychotherapeutic treatments.
RECENT FINDINGS:
The most promising lines of research with regard to psychiatry and psychotherapy center on the targeted implementation or modulation of sleep to augment existing or create novel forms of treatment.
SUMMARY:
The modulation of sleep and interconnected neural plasticity processes provides a window of opportunity for developing novel treatments in psychiatry and psychotherapy.
Date of Publication
2017
Publication Type
Article
Subject(s)
600 - Technology::610 - Medicine & health
Language(s)
en
Additional Credits
Zentrum für Translationale Forschung der Universitätsklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie
Series
Current opinion in psychiatry
Publisher
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
ISSN
0951-7367
Access(Rights)
open.access