Tag: sleep
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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SLEEP DISTURBANCE AND GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER (GAD)
Many patients with a primary psychiatric disorder report sleep disturbances that change across the lifespan and also vary with gender. These alterations in sleep may influence the development and course of a psychiatric disorder, and thus treatment of the psychiatric disorder can significantly improve sleep. Conversely, when the sleep disturbance predominates, its treatment may improve…
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VISIT TO A SLEEP LAB: SLEEP STAGES
WAKEFULNESS:The eye movement lines look like mirror images of hills and mountains. The brainwaves on the screen are small, rapidly but irregularly oscillating lines, like a very nervous person might make if trying to draw a straight line. This low, fast, random pattern of brain waves is called beta waves, and they indicate wakefulness.The muscle…
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SIGNS THAT CANCER IN YOUR LOVED ONE IS CAUSING YOU ANXIETY
VOLATILE MOOD If you are excessively irritable and sometimes display raging anger, you are likely experiencing underlying anxiety. The uncertainty associated with a diagnosis of cancer is often very difficult to bear, because no matter what is done the good news are not guaranteed. As a result, we are buried in a sea of worries…
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IS BODY TEMPERATURE IMPORTANT IN SLEEP?
Sleep can only occur if optimum body and brain temperature is reached.
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IS SLEEP IMPORTANT FOR EMOTION REGULATION?
Sleep helps optimize emotion regulation for both positive and negative emotions. When sleep is disturbed or lost, emotional volatility and potential psychopathologies occur.
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FEAR MEMORIES ARE CONSOLIDATED DURING SLEEP
Fear memory is consolidated during sleep through a neural mechanism that if disrupted leads to dysregulated fear as happens in anxiety disorders.
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DOES SLEEP DEPRIVATION INCREASE ANXIETY?
Sleep deprivation increases anxiety, especially after more than 72 hours of no sleep.
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DOES SLEEP DEPRIVATION AFFECT SOCIAL INTERACTIONS?
Sleep deprived individuals temporarily loose the ability to accurately recognize emotions on faces and even perceive certain facial expressions as negative.