title: Changing maladaptive memories through reconsolidation: A role for sleep in psychotherapy?
abstract: Like Lane et al., we believe that change in psychotherapy comes about by updating dysfunctional memories with new adaptive experiences. We suggest that sleep is essential to (re-)consolidate such corrective experiences. Sleep is well-known to strengthen and integrate new memories into pre-existing networks. Targeted sleep interventions might be promising tools to boost this process and thereby increase therapy effectiveness.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology,University of Tübingen,Tübingen 72076,Germanysusanne.diekelmann@uni-tuebingen.dehttp://www.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/en/Research/Institutes/Medical+Psychology.html.
authors.forename: Susanne
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Diekelmann
authors.affiliation: University of Buenos Aires,Institute of Physiology,Molecular Biology and Neuroscience (IFIByNE-CONICET),1428 Capital Federal,Buenos Aires,Argentinacforcato@fbmc.fcen.uba.ar.
authors.forename: Cecilia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Forcato
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory; D011613:Psychotherapy; D012890:Sleep