Sleep supports memory consolidation and the integration of newly acquired information.

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Rasch and Born review extensive evidence for sleep-dependent memory consolidation, including processes through which recently encoded information is stabilized and integrated.

The review does not establish that every form of emotional experience is integrated during sleep, or that sleep alone completes recovery from all forms of stress.

The book uses memory consolidation as one concrete example of recovery as active biological processing rather than mere absence of effort.

Broad, mature principles of human biology, behavior, or regulation supported across a substantial body of research.

Sources are listed according to the role they play in this claim. One source may provide direct support, another may explain a mechanism, establish a limitation, or prevent an interpretation from becoming broader than the evidence allows.

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