One-week sleep hygiene education improves episodic memory in young but not in older adults during social isolation.

ABSTRACT: Memory formation is a dynamic process that comprises different phases, such as encoding, consolidation and retrieval. It could be altered by several factors such as sleep quality, anxiety, and depression levels. In the last years, due to COVID-19 pandemic, there was a reduction in sleep quality, an increase in anxiety and depressive symptoms as well as an impairment in emotional episodic memory encoding, especially in young adults. Taking into account the profound impact of sleep quality in daily life a series of rules has been developed that are conducive to consistently achieving good sleep, known as sleep hygiene education. These interventions have been shown to be effective in improving sleep quality and duration and reducing depressive and anxiety symptoms. Here we propose the impleme

SUBMITTER: Tassone LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10433204 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature