Effects of post-exposure naps on exposure therapy for social anxiety

Pace-Schott, EF; Bottary, RM; Kim, SY; Rosencrans, PL; Vijayakumar, S; Orr, SP; Lasko, NB; Goetter, EM; Baker, AW; Bianchi, MT; Gannon, K; Hoeppner, SS; Hofmann, SG; Simon, NM

Pace-Schott, EF (reprint author), Univ Washington, Dept Psychol, Seattle, WA 98195 USA.

PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH, 2018; 270 (): 523

Abstract

Exposure therapy for social anxiety disorder (SAD) utilizes fear extinction, a memory process enhanced by sleep. We investigated whether naps followin......

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