TY - JOUR
T1 - Sleep and dreaming are for important matters
AU - Perogamvros, L.
AU - Dang-Vu, T. T.
AU - Desseilles, M.
AU - Schwartz, S.
PY - 2013/8/27
Y1 - 2013/8/27
N2 - Recent studies in sleep and dreaming have described an activation of emotional and reward systems, as well as the processing of internal information during these states. Specifically, increased activity in the amygdala and across mesolimbic dopaminergic regions during REM sleep is likely to promote the consolidation of memory traces with high emotional/motivational value. Moreover, coordinated hippocampal-striatal replay during NREM sleep may contribute to the selective strengthening of memories for important events. In this review, we suggest that, via the activation of emotional/motivational circuits, sleep and dreaming may offer a neurobehavioral substrate for the offline reprocessing of emotions, associative learning, and exploratory behaviors, resulting in improved memory organization, waking emotion regulation, social skills, and creativity. Dysregulation of such motivational/emotional processes due to sleep disturbances (e.g., insomnia, sleep deprivation) would predispose to reward-related disorders, such as mood disorders, increased risk-taking and compulsive behaviors, and may have major health implications, especially in vulnerable populations. © 2013 Perogamvros, Dang-Vu, Desseilles and Schwartz.
AB - Recent studies in sleep and dreaming have described an activation of emotional and reward systems, as well as the processing of internal information during these states. Specifically, increased activity in the amygdala and across mesolimbic dopaminergic regions during REM sleep is likely to promote the consolidation of memory traces with high emotional/motivational value. Moreover, coordinated hippocampal-striatal replay during NREM sleep may contribute to the selective strengthening of memories for important events. In this review, we suggest that, via the activation of emotional/motivational circuits, sleep and dreaming may offer a neurobehavioral substrate for the offline reprocessing of emotions, associative learning, and exploratory behaviors, resulting in improved memory organization, waking emotion regulation, social skills, and creativity. Dysregulation of such motivational/emotional processes due to sleep disturbances (e.g., insomnia, sleep deprivation) would predispose to reward-related disorders, such as mood disorders, increased risk-taking and compulsive behaviors, and may have major health implications, especially in vulnerable populations. © 2013 Perogamvros, Dang-Vu, Desseilles and Schwartz.
KW - Creativity
KW - Dreaming
KW - Emotion
KW - Learning
KW - Memory
KW - Reward system
KW - Sleep
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84882687038&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00474
DO - 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00474
M3 - Article
C2 - 23898315
VL - 4
JO - Frontiers in psychology
JF - Frontiers in psychology
IS - JUL
M1 - Article 474
ER -