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Could sleep engineering be used to combat PTSD and depression?

Lewis PA
Abdellahi MEA
Scientific Abstract

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.

Citation
2026. PLoS Biol, 24(2)e3003633.
DOI
10.1371/journal.pbio.3003633
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PMC12928472
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