Does napping enhance the effects of Cognitive Bias Modification-Appraisal training? An experimental study.

ABSTRACT: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is characterised by dysfunctional appraisals of the trauma and its consequences including one's own symptoms. Experimental studies have shown that Cognitive Bias Modification-Appraisal (CBM-App) training can reduce dysfunctional interpretations and analog trauma symptoms. One important question is how to enhance the effects of CBM-App. Following work suggesting that sleep has beneficial effects on consolidation processes and can thus improve learning, the present study investigated whether a brief period of sleep (i.e., a nap) enhances the effects of CBM-App. All participants watched a stressful movie as an analogue trauma induction. After that, participants received either positive or negative CBM-App training. Within each training, half of the partici

SUBMITTER: Woud ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5813960 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature