Stimulus-specific enhancement of fear extinction during slow-wave sleep. Hauner, K. K., Howard, J. D., Zelano, C., & Gottfried, J. A. Nature Neuroscience, 16(11):1553–1555, November, 2013.
Stimulus-specific enhancement of fear extinction during slow-wave sleep [link]Paper  doi  abstract   bibtex   
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.
@article{hauner_stimulus-specific_2013,
	title = {Stimulus-specific enhancement of fear extinction during slow-wave sleep},
	volume = {16},
	issn = {1097-6256},
	url = {https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24056700 http://www.nature.com/articles/nn.3527},
	doi = {10.1038/nn.3527},
	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.},
	number = {11},
	journal = {Nature Neuroscience},
	author = {Hauner, Katherina K. and Howard, James D. and Zelano, Christina and Gottfried, Jay A.},
	month = nov,
	year = {2013},
	keywords = {Adult, Amygdala, Brain, Classical, Computer-Assisted, Conditioning, Electroshock, Extinction, Fear, Female, Galvanic Skin Response, Humanism, Humanities, Humans, Image Processing, Linear Models, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Multivariate Analysis, Odorants, Oxygen, Pattern Recognition, Photic Stimulation, Psychological, Sleep, Visual, Wakefulness, Young Adult},
	pages = {1553--1555},
}

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