Anxiety is the most common mental health problem worldwide. Epidemiological studies
show that sleep disturbances, particularly insomnia, affect∼ 50% of individuals with anxiety …

Are you feeling emotionally fragile, moody, unpredictable, even ungenerous to those around
you? Here, we review how and why these phenomena can occur as a result of insufficient …

Learning and memory for extinction of conditioned fear is a basic mammalian mechanism for
regulating negative emotion. Sleep promotes both the consolidation of memory and the …

Background Sleep duration and chronotype (ie, morningness–eveningness) are associated
with increased depression and anxiety risk, but differences in individual sleep need and …

The aim of the current study was to investigate whether the experience of insomnia
symptoms per se and symptoms of insomnia due to stress are associated with an increased …

Study objectives Sleep debt (SD) has been suggested to evoke emotional instability by
diminishing the suppression of the amygdala by the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC). Here …

In this review article, we aimed to discuss the role of sleep deprivation (SD) in learning and
memory processing in basic and clinical studies. There are numerous studies investigating …

Age and sleep both affect emotional functioning. Since sleep patterns change over the
lifespan, we investigated the effects of short sleep and age on empathic responses. In a …

Many modern people suffer from sleep debt that has accumulated in everyday life but is not
subjectively noticed [potential sleep debt (PSD)]. Our hypothesis for this study was that …

Sleep deprivation is proposed to inhibit top-down-control in emotion processing, but it is
unclear whether sleep deprivation affects emotional mimicry and contagion. Here, we aimed …