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Stimulus-specific enhancement of fear extinction during slow-wave sleep.


ABSTRACT: Sleep can strengthen memory for emotional information, but whether emotional memories can be specifically targeted and modified during sleep is unknown. In human subjects who underwent olfactory contextual fear conditioning, re-exposure to the odorant context in slow-wave sleep promoted stimulus-specific fear extinction, with parallel reductions of hippocampal activity and reorganization of amygdala ensemble patterns. Thus, fear extinction may be selectively enhanced during sleep, even without re-exposure to the feared stimulus itself.

SUBMITTER: Hauner KK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3818116 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Stimulus-specific enhancement of fear extinction during slow-wave sleep.

Hauner Katherina K KK   Howard James D JD   Zelano Christina C   Gottfried Jay A JA  

Nature neuroscience 20130922 11


Sleep can strengthen memory for emotional information, but whether emotional memories can be specifically targeted and modified during sleep is unknown. In human subjects who underwent olfactory contextual fear conditioning, re-exposure to the odorant context in slow-wave sleep promoted stimulus-specific fear extinction, with parallel reductions of hippocampal activity and reorganization of amygdala ensemble patterns. Thus, fear extinction may be selectively enhanced during sleep, even without r  ...[more]

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