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#49 - Nightmares and Treatment

The Matt Walker Podcast

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The Effects of Image Rehearsal Therapy on Memory

Sophie Schwartz at the University of Geneva. They wanted to find a way to increase the clinical benefit of image rehearsal therapy by boosting that memory updating and memory revising process. But they weren't going to do it while those individuals were awake. How is it different? Sound. You see, as they were memorising these alternative endings to their nightmares during the therapy session, which is just what the first group did, they additionally heard a specific sound every 10 seconds. And in doing so, they pinned an unmistakable sound badge to that soothed nightmare from the therapy session. So once that second group of patients went into dream sleep, the researchers started to play that same piano chord

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