Benchenane Lab

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ERC Consolidator Grant · 2016

Brain computer interface to study and manipulate mamories of aversive experience during sleep

The aim of this project is to study the influence of sleep in the establishment of aversive memory and to propose a proof of concept for the use of brain-computer interfaces during sleep to treat pathologies associated with fear or anxiety such as post-traumatic stress disorders. It is now accepted that sleep plays a crucial role in memory consolidation processes that allow the conversion of newly encoded memory traces into more stable information. Numerous studies have shown that some of the positive effect of sleep on consolidation relies on the reactivations of previous experiences. We recently showed that spontaneous sleep reactivations can be used to create an artificial memory during…

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