Participants in the study found that subtle changes in their sleep made a difference — and could predict their anxiety levels the next day.It's long been known that a night of restful sleep restores the emotions that have been discombobulating us during the day, and resets us for the next morning. However, a night without sleep does just the opposite, according to new research from the. In fact, a night with little sleep can catalyze up to a 30% rise in anxiety.
"We have identified a new function of deep sleep, one that decreases anxiety overnight by reorganizing connections in the brain," said the study's senior author Matthew Walker, a UC Berkeley professor of neuroscience and psychology,. "Deep sleep seems to be a natural anxiolytic , so long as we get it each and every night."
The experiments the researchers ran on participants showed that the amount and quality of sleep participants received from one night to the next predicted how anxious they would feel the next day. Even subtle changes in their sleep made a difference.
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