The Role of Slow Wave Sleep in Memory Pathophysiology: Focus on Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing

摘要

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a clinical condition that may develop after a person experienced a traumatic event. PTSD can be considered as a disorder in which a fear conditioned response fails to extinguish, leading to several symptoms such as re-experiencing of the traumatic moment with intrusive thoughts, flashbacks, and nightmares, avoidance of situations related to the trauma, negative alterations in cognitions and mood, and hyper-arousal.