Sleep Regulation and Insomnia

For years, the subject of sleep failed to generate much interest from either the field of medicine or that of psychology - a curious fact, as a 60-year-old has spent some 20 years out of those 60 sleeping. In fact, up until the age of approximately 3 years, a child spends more time asleep than awake. It would be an extraordinary evolutionary oversight if this phenomenon of sleep, which is seen in virtually all organisms, did not have an important and vital function (McNamara, Evolution of sleep phylogenetic and functional perspectives. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2009). The consequences of sleep deprivation make themselves known by interfering with our emotional and cognitive functioning on the following day, when one may also experience the imperative nature of sleep, sometimes at very inconvenient moments

Sleep regulation and insomnia

For years, the subject of sleep failed to generate much interest from either the field of medicine or that of psychology - a curious fact, as a 60-year-old has spent some 20 years out of those 60 sleeping. In fact, up until the age of approximately three years, a child spends more time asleep than awake. It would be an extraordinary evolutionary oversight if this phenomenon of sleep, which is seen in virtually all organisms, did not have an important and vital function (McNamara 2009). The consequences of sleep deprivation make themselves known by interfering with our emotional and cognitive functioning on the following day, when one may also experience the imperative nature of sleep, sometimes at very inconvenient moments (Cluydts 2003)

Fatigue, sleepiness and sleep quality perception, in day, night and shift workers.

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Does emotion regulation explains the impact of emotion on sleep physiology? Experiential versus cognitive emotion regulation

Introduction: Despite a history of interest in emotion regulation (ER)as well as the mechanisms that regulate sleep, the relationship between the role of the emotional brain and sleep remains a challenging area of research. In the present talk we discuss the question whether trained experiential or cognitive emotion regulation can decrease the negative impact of emotional stress on sleep physiology. Methods: Two studies on trained ER will be discussed:1). on experiential versus cognitive analytical processing as ER(N=28),2). on experiential ER versus cognitive reappraisal as ER (N=38). Results: The first study revealed that participants who were instructed to apply experiential ER showed less fragmentation of sleep than participants who were instructed to apply an analytical processing approach of ER. The use of experiential ER resulted in a longer sleep time, higher sleep efficiency, fewer awakenings, less %time awake, and fewer minutes wake after sleep onset. In the second study we only found less awakenings in the experiential condition relative to cognitive reappraisal and better mood on the next morning in the experiential condition when alexithymia was taken into account. Implications of the differential effects of these two forms of emotion regulation on sleep will be discussed. Disclosure: Nothing to disclos

Sleep Regulation and Insomnia

For years, the subject of sleep failed to generate much interest from either the field of medicine or that of psychology – a curious fact, as a 60-year-old has spent some 20 years out of those 60 sleeping. In fact, up until the age of approximately 3 years, a child spends more time asleep than awake. It would be an extraordinary evolutionary oversight if this phenomenon of sleep, which is seen in virtually all organisms, did not have an important and vital function (McNamara, Evolution of sleep phylogenetic and functional perspectives. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2009). The consequences of sleep deprivation make themselves known by interfering with our emotional and cognitive functioning on the following day, when one may also experience the imperative nature of sleep, sometimes at very inconvenient moments (Cluydts, Sleep Med Rev 7(4):293–295, 2003)