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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jun 19.
Published in final edited form as: Biol Psychiatry Cogn Neurosci Neuroimaging. 2017 Mar 6;2(2):109–110. doi: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2017.01.006

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Figure 1:

Traumatic events are encoded into trauma memories that are normally processed during sleep, leading to resolution of the trauma. Processing includes (1) reduction in the associated fear response, (2) forgetting of irrelevant details, and (3) integration into pre-existing memory networks. All three of these have been shown to occur preferentially during sleep.