ReviewAnnual review of clinical psychology2014
The role of sleep in emotional brain function.
Review in Annual review of clinical psychology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 499 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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499 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 977 citations in OpenAlex.
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Abstract
Rapidly emerging evidence continues to describe an intimate and causal relationship between sleep and emotional brain function. These findings are mirrored by long-standing clinical observations demonstrating that nearly all mood and anxiety disorders co-occur with one or more sleep abnormalities. This review aims to (a) provide a synthesis of recent findings describing the emotional brain and behavioral benefits triggered by sleep, and conversely, the detrimental impairments following a lack of sleep; (b) outline a proposed framework in which sleep, and specifically rapid-eye movement (REM) sleep, supports a process of affective brain homeostasis, optimally preparing the organism for next-day social and emotional functioning; and (c) describe how this hypothesized framework can explain the prevalent relationships between sleep and psychiatric disorders, with a particular focus on posttraumatic stress disorder and major depression.
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