Are you angry? Do not get in bed with a bad emotion – Interfax

Bad feelings do not go at night, but “can” – say researchers. This means that it is better to accept before the night after a quarrel and not to watch late in the evening the dramatic message.

Research publishes the journal “Nature Communications”.

- from this it Follows that during sleep the brain reorganizes, stored as negative memories, making them serious to erase the memory in the future, says Yunzhe Liu from University in Beijing, main author of the work. We proposed thus to use methods of “przesypiania anger,” he adds.

Discovery besides the fact that this is good advice for all of us also can affect the treatment of people suffering from PTSD.
Experience conducted over two days with the participation of 73 students were tested, with what efficiency they can suppress negative memories. First volunteers are shown a pair of pictures. One was a neutral human face and the second disturbing images, such as wounded, crying children, or delays. Then the students show you again the photo, but only do neutral faces, and we asked to actively think about “bad” photo that was in that person’s assigned or deliberately avoided thinking about it.

it Turned out that forgetting such negative images has led to the fact that after 30 minutes, the students less frequently than the group, thinking about them, they could remember how bad the photo was accompanied by a neutral face.

However, when the “session of repression” carried out after a good night’s sleep, the students remembered them more often.

Studies of the brain activity of students, conducted with functional magnetic resonance imaging has shown that newly acquired memories are initially concentrated in the hippocampus, the memory center of the brain, but from day to day were sold on the future structure of the cerebral cortex.

the Authors warn that the study involved a mentally healthy participants, but not patients suffering from post-traumatic stress. The expectation that people who have experienced a traumatic event in your life will start work on the suppression of memoirs on the same day is unrealistic. However, research can certainly help create them for special events.