The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
the sleeping brain was able to almost detox the emotional memory it is think about it like um an informational orange that the emotional memory Has This Bitter emotional rind around it and then you've got the informational orange in the middle and what sleep was doing was stripping the bitter emotional rind off the informational orange
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in those people who had the same amount of time to process the memories but had had a full night of sleep we saw this incredible emotional amydala dep potentiation
it was REM sleep rapid eye movement sleep associated with dreaming and the greater the amount of REM sleep the greater the amount of emotional depotentiation
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