Tag: Sleep Loss

We have all experienced nights when we didn’t get enough sleep. And we may have noticed that as a result we were more irritable or more anxious or generally less able to handle stressful situations. In order to understand better the effects of sleep deprivation on our emotional health, Palmer and colleagues conducted a meta-analysis over 154 relevant studies. They found that, as many of us may have experienced, sleep deprivation often reduces positive emotions and increases anxiety. The authors also found that disrupting REM (normal dreaming) sleep increased negative emotions more than disruptions during other stages of sleep.

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