{"id":94117,"date":"2019-07-25T10:42:25","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T17:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/restless-rem-sleep-may-contribute-to-mood-anxiety-disorders"},"modified":"2019-07-25T10:42:25","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T17:42:25","slug":"restless-rem-sleep-may-contribute-to-mood-anxiety-disorders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/restless-rem-sleep-may-contribute-to-mood-anxiety-disorders","title":{"rendered":"Restless REM Sleep May Contribute to Mood, Anxiety Disorders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/restless-rem-sleep-may-contribute-to-mood-anxiety-disorders2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Restless rapid eye movement (REM) sleep impedes emotional processing, which may contribute to mood and <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/emedicine.medscape.com\/article\/286227-overview\">anxiety disorders<\/a>, new research suggests.<\/p>\n<p>A team of Dutch investigators used fMRI to scan the brains of participants who underwent a stressful experience \u2014 in this case, hearing themselves sing out of tune. Brain activity was measured using electroencephalography (EEG).<\/p>\n<p>The next morning, after spending the night in a sleep laboratory, participants were subjected to the same unpleasant experience. Those who had experienced REM sleep were less distressed, whereas those with restless REM sleep were once again upset.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Restless rapid eye movement (REM) sleep impedes emotional processing, which may contribute to mood and anxiety disorders, new research suggests. A team of Dutch investigators used fMRI to scan the brains of participants who underwent a stressful experience \u2014 in this case, hearing themselves sing out of tune. Brain activity was measured using electroencephalography (EEG). [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}