Impact of sleep deprivation on individual emotion and the underlying mechanisms / 第二军医大学学报

ABSTRACT

Sleep is very important for maintaining normal emotional function. Sleep deprivation has been shown to decrease the individual positive emotion and enhance the level of negative ones. This paper reviews the current findings with regard to the effects of sleep deprivation on emotional state, hoping to better understand the underlying mechanisms by which sleep deprivation affects individual emotion from the following perspectivesemotional brain networks, rapid eye movement sleep, emotional information processing, energy supplying and emotional background.