Maya T Schenker

TL;DR: In this paper, a meta-analysis correlated polysomnographic sleep findings with psychophysiological reactivity to the danger (CS+) and safety stimuli (CS-), to clarify the specific role of sleep stages before and after extinction learning and extinction recall.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors review how human paradigms can successfully translate animal findings to human subjects, with the view that substantially increased insight into the effect of endocannabinoid signalling on stress responding, emotional and intrusive memories, and fear extinction can be gained using modern paradigmms and methods for assessing the state of the endocannaloid system in PTSD.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review how human paradigms can successfully translate animal findings to human subjects, with the view that substantially increased insight into the effect of endocannabinoid signalling on stress responding, emotional and intrusive memories, and fear extinction can be gained using modern paradigmms and methods for assessing the state of the endocannaloid system in PTSD.

TL;DR: This article conducted a meta-analysis of the available studies to demonstrate that, for most outcome measures, fear learning using a traumatic film clip unconditional stimulus yields results similar to those seen with an electro-tactile unconditional stimulus, which implies that the combined paradigm shares at least some properties of more standard fear conditioning paradigms.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors compared the efficacy and acceptability of all published psychotherapeutic and pharmacological interventions for trauma-related nightmares (TRN) in adults and found that Prazosin and image rehearsal therapy (IRT) were the two effective interventions for TRN.

TL;DR: In this paper , sleep disruption may contribute to the etiology of PTSD by interfering with consolidation in low-level emotion-regulatory memory systems, such as fear extinction, safety learning and habituation.