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IF YOU WILL NOT SLEEP PROPERLY, YOU WILL CORRUPT YOUR MEMORY-RESEARCH

The finding shows that the brain handles memories differently during sleep than while awake, says Sara Mednick, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of California, San Diego who was not involved in the research. Armed with this new knowledge, she says, therapists may be able to destabilize traumatic memories and overwrite the bad memories with good ones, then solidify the new memory with a nap.