The News:
Lack Of Sleep Can Cause Psychiatric Disorders
Nidhi Sharma - AHN News Writer
Washington D.C. (AHN) - Sleep deprivation can cause the brain's emotional centers to overreact to negative experiences, including depression, anxiety, and other psychiatric disorders, a new study has found. Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, and Harvard Medical School found that lack of sleep results in shutdown of the prefrontal lobe, a brain region responsible for controlling the emotions.
The Research:
Read the research behind this story in Current Biology.
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