A role for rem sleep in recalibrating the sensitivity of the human brain to specific emotions

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 115-123

  Gujar, Ninad ^a,b   McDonald, Steven Andrew ^a,b   Nishida, Masaki ^a,b,c   Walker, Matthew P ^a,b  

^a Sleep and Neuroimaging Laboratory   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Emotion; Reactivity; REM; Sleep

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CALIBRATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOOD; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; REM SLEEP; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; BRAIN; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SLEEP, REM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78651331256     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhq064     Document Type: Article

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