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Sleep helps selectively preserve emotional memories

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Sleep tends to help people better remember aspects of a negative event while allowing memory of background information to fade, researchers have found. <p><a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~a/reuters/healthNews?a=wp9a2l"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~a/reuters/healthNews?i=wp9a2l" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/healthNews?a=TOmLSK"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/healthNews?i=TOmLSK" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/healthNews?a=d68tak"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/healthNews?i=d68tak" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/healthNews?a=GxuVHk"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/healthNews?i=GxuVHk" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/healthNews/~4/376405568" height="1" width="1"/>