The emotional brain and sleep: An intimate relationship

Sleep Medicine Reviews

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 219-226

  Vandekerckhove, Marie ^a,b   Cluydts, Raymond ^b  

^a Jan Palfijn Hospital   (Belgium)

^b FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Brain; Emotion; Emotion regulation; Emotional adaptation; REM sleep; Sleep

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AROUSAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; COPING BEHAVIOR; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DREAM; EMOTIONAL STRESS; EMOTIONALITY; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; LIFE STRESS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; RECALL; REM SLEEP; REVIEW; SLEEP; SLEEP TIME;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AFFECT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DREAMS; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SLEEP; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; SLEEP, REM; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 77953016003     PISSN: 10870792     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.smrv.2010.01.002     Document Type: Review

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