Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8838711 | Neurobiology of Stress | 2018 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
To our knowledge, this was the first study to examine the relationship between objective sleep and fear-potentiated startle performance in veterans with PTSD. Study methods were well tolerated by participants, supporting feasibility of the experimental design. Results indicated REM sleep was associated with both initial safety learning and subsequent safety recall. Taken together with previous studies in healthy controls, these preliminary results provide additional evidence suggesting REM sleep could play a mechanistic role in the maintenance of PTSD and thus identify a modifiable biological process to target in treatment of PTSD. These findings should be replicated in larger samples.
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Authors
Laura D. Straus, Sonya B. Norman, Victoria B. Risbrough, Dean T. Acheson, Sean P.A. Drummond,