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Sleep Deprivation Boosts Anticipatory Anxiety, Making Us Tired And Edgy
June 28, 2013 by NewsBot
UC Berkeley researchers have found that a lack of sleep, which is common in anxiety disorders, may play a key role in ramping up the brain regions that contribute to excessive worrying. Neuroscientists have found that sleep deprivation amplifies anticipatory anxiety by firing up the brain's amygdala and insular cortex, regions associated with emotional processing...