Sleep and emotional processing

Tempesta, Daniela; Socci, Valentina; Gennaro, Luigi De; Ferrara, Michele

doi:10.1016/j.smrv.2017.12.005

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“…Depressed patients commonly exhibit disturbances in sleep continuity, a shortening of rapid eye movement (REM) latency, increases in REM density, and increased total REM sleep time, although these changes are not specific for affective disorders (Riemann et al, 2020). Notably, REM sleep plays an important role in emotional processing (Tempesta et al, 2018), and renormalization of amygdala activity is suggested to be one of the physiologic roles of REM, a process likely disrupted in patients suffering from anxiety (Van Der Helm et al, 2011). Furthermore, depression is often associated with reduced SWS and a lower delta sleep ratio, which is indicative of a smaller decrease in SWA occurring from the first NREM episode to the last (Kupfer et al, 1990;Armitage, 2007).…”

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Encoding, Consolidation, and Renormalization in Depression: Synaptic Homeostasis, Plasticity, and Sleep Integrate Rapid Antidepressant Effects

Rantamäki

Kohtala

2020

Pharmacol Rev

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Brain and Mind Doctoral Program (S.K.), the Orion Research Foundation (S.K.), and the Emil Aaltonen foundation (S.K.). T.R. and S.K. are listed as coinventors on a patent application, wherein new tools enabling the development of rapid-acting antidepressants and the efficacy monitors thereof are disclosed based on the basic principles of ENCORE-D. T.R. and S.K. have assigned their patent rights to the University of Helsinki but will share a percentage of any royalties that may be received by the University of Helsinki.

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Encoding, Consolidation, and Renormalization in Depression: Synaptic Homeostasis, Plasticity, and Sleep Integrate Rapid Antidepressant Effects

Rantamäki

Kohtala

2020

Pharmacol Rev

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“…There are few studies that examined the relationship between sleep and emotional processing while considering the underlying neural mechanisms. In a recent review, Tempesta, Socci, De Gennaro, and Ferrara () examined a series of studies in which fMRI was used to assess the neural underpinning of emotional processes and their relationship with sleep quality. In this review, the findings of the study by Yoo, Gujar, Hu, Jolesz, and Walker () are discussed.…”

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Sleep quality and its association with the insular cortex in emotional empathy

Guadagni

Burles

Ferrara

et al. 2018

Eur J of Neuroscience

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The human ability to vicariously share someone else's emotions (i.e., emotional empathy) relies on an extended neural network including regions in the anterior cingulate and insular cortex. Here, we tested the hypothesis that good sleep quality is associated with increased activation in the brain areas underlying emotional empathy. To this aim, we assessed subjective sleep quality in a large sample of healthy young volunteers, and asked participants to complete a computerized emotional empathy task. Then, we asked 16 participants to complete the same task while undergoing functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI). After confirming the behavioral relationship between quality of sleep and emotional empathy in the large sample, we conducted a Region of Interest (ROI) analysis on selected ROIs involved in emotional empathy, and measured Blood Oxygen Level Dependent (BOLD) signal change in participants who performed the emotional empathy task in the MRI scanner; additionally, we assessed how the BOLD signal in different brain areas temporally correlated with performance throughout the task (i.e., task-based functional connectivity). We found increased BOLD signal change in a selective region within the left insula for individuals with better subjective sleep quality. These findings provide the very first evidence that individuals' sleep quality relates to emotional empathic responses through increased neural activation of a specific area within the insular cortex.

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“…Exposure to emotional stimuli results in more autonomic arousal and erratic emotional responses in those getting little/no sleep compared to those who got good sleep [62] [63]. Chronic insomnia may result in a lasting deficiency in the ability to neurologically downregulate distress [64], and unlike good sleepers, insomniacs are unable to dissociate limbic activity and autonomic reactivity from distressing and/or shameful long-term memories [56]. They may be Open Journal of Medical Psychology "haunted by the past".…”

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The Therapeutic Role of Guided Mental Imagery in Treating Stress and Insomnia: A Neuropsychological Perspective

Jerath¹,

Beveridge²,

Jensen³

et al. 2020

OJMP

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Excessive distress and insomnia are much too common in the modern world and often lead to a myriad of detrimental effects including loss of cognitive ability and even physical ailments such as cancer. Current pharmaceutical treatments can be addictive, detrimental to health, and in the case of insomnia don't produce naturalistic sleep. We present a viewpoint on a potential adjunctive treatment of distress and insomnia that harnesses specific mental imagery as a component of mind/body relaxation technique. Via our perspective on the modern nature of stress and insomnia, our theoretical perspective on how specific guided mental imagery can be used to treat these ailments, and our review on the current literature on treatment with mental imagery, we hope to stimulate further research into mental health treatment with mental imagery which has traditionally been neglected. This perspective on the pathology of insomnia and distress is founded in prevailing "dysevolution" and hyper-arousal theories. Hyper-arousal is characterized in part by a vicious cycle of chronic physiological and emotional stimulation/distress. We argue for spatially based mental imagery in the form of nighttime-sky imagery to attenuate such pathology by breaking one away from a vicious cycle of stimulation and distress and discuss neuropsychological bases for its potential treatment mechanisms which include the autonomic nervous system and a phenomenal foundation of conscious cognition.

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Sleep and emotional processing

Cited by 311 publications

References 138 publications

Encoding, Consolidation, and Renormalization in Depression: Synaptic Homeostasis, Plasticity, and Sleep Integrate Rapid Antidepressant Effects

Encoding, Consolidation, and Renormalization in Depression: Synaptic Homeostasis, Plasticity, and Sleep Integrate Rapid Antidepressant Effects

Sleep quality and its association with the insular cortex in emotional empathy

The Therapeutic Role of Guided Mental Imagery in Treating Stress and Insomnia: A Neuropsychological Perspective

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