Could sleep engineering be used to combat PTSD and depression?

Sleep engineering could be developed to provide a drug-free, non-invasive avenue to treat depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. Such an intervention would be greatly aided by the sophisticated detection of memory reactivations using machine learning classifiers.

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PLoS Biology
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2026-02-23
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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003633
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Sleep and related disorders
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Could sleep engineering be used to combat PTSD and depression?

Mahmoud E. A. Abdellahi, Penelope A. Lewis
PLoS Biology
Sleep and related disorders
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Could sleep engineering be used to combat PTSD and depression?

Mahmoud E. A. Abdellahi, Penelope A. Lewis
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Abstract

Sleep engineering could be developed to provide a drug-free, non-invasive avenue to treat depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. Such an intervention would be greatly aided by the sophisticated detection of memory reactivations using machine learning classifiers.

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