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Barbara Phillips, MD, MSPH
Critical Care & Pulmonology
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Advances
Insights May 20, 2008
The effects of sleep deprivation
Recent research outlines a connection between
sleep and emotional stability.
In the October 23,...
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What the news
means for you
Barbara Phillips, MD, MSPH
Critical Care & Pulmonology
&
Advances
Insights May 20, 2008
The effects of sleep deprivation
Recent research outlines a connection between
sleep and emotional stability.
In the October 23,
2007, edition of Current Biology, researchers
showed that when exposed to disturbing images,
the part of the brain that controls emotional
responses, the amygdala, was much more active
in people who had missed a night’s sleep than in
the control group who slept a normal amount.
Although sleep deprivation is known to impair
many human functions, including immune
regulation, metabolic control, motor-functions,
learning processes and memory processes,
there has been little research on how sleep
deprivation can affect the emotional brain-state.
In this study, the researchers divided 26
undergraduate college students into two groups.
One group stayed awake for two days and one
night, about 35 hours.
The control grou
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