{"id":206020,"date":"2025-02-10T01:09:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T07:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/sleep-strengthens-emotionally-charged-memories-during-non-rem-phase"},"modified":"2025-02-10T01:09:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T07:09:58","slug":"sleep-strengthens-emotionally-charged-memories-during-non-rem-phase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/sleep-strengthens-emotionally-charged-memories-during-non-rem-phase","title":{"rendered":"Sleep Strengthens Emotionally Charged Memories During Non-REM Phase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sleep-strengthens-emotionally-charged-memories-during-non-rem-phase.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary: <\/strong>Researchers have discovered that positive emotions enhance perceptual memories during sleep, particularly in the non-REM stage. Using mice, they found that memories linked to rewarding experiences lasted longer than neutral ones. The amygdala plays a key role in strengthening these memories by activating a tri-regional circuit with the motor and sensory cortices.<\/p>\n<p>Brain recordings confirmed that this circuit reactivates during non-REM sleep, solidifying perceptual memories. Blocking amygdala signals during non-REM sleep disrupted memory retention, while blocking them during REM sleep had no effect. These findings suggest new ways to treat conditions like addiction and PTSD by targeting non-REM sleep processes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Researchers have discovered that positive emotions enhance perceptual memories during sleep, particularly in the non-REM stage. Using mice, they found that memories linked to rewarding experiences lasted longer than neutral ones. The amygdala plays a key role in strengthening these memories by activating a tri-regional circuit with the motor and sensory cortices. Brain recordings [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}