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Could sleep engineering be used to combat PTSD and depression?

Lewis, Penelope A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1793-3520 and Abdellahi, Mahmoud E. A. 2026. Could sleep engineering be used to combat PTSD and depression? PLoS Biology 24 (2) , e3003633. 10.1371/journal.pbio.3003633

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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.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Published Online
Status: Published
Schools: Schools > Psychology
Research Institutes & Centres > Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC)
Additional Information: License information from Publisher: LICENSE 1: URL: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Publisher: Public Library of Science
ISSN: 1544-9173
Date of First Compliant Deposit: 2 March 2026
Last Modified: 02 Mar 2026 14:30
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/185384

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