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.
Authors
- Mahmoud E. A. Abdellahi
- Penelope A. Lewis
Institutions
- Cairo University (EG)
- Cardiff University (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- PLoS Biology
- Published
- 2026-02-23
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003633
- Primary Topic
- Sleep and related disorders
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00