Fact: Lack of sleep can mess with your emotions
By: Team Ifairer | Posted: 09-12-2015
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For the results, the researchers kept 18 adults awake all night to take two rounds of tests while undergoing brain mapping. When sleep-deprived, participants performed badly in the cases of both the neutral and the emotional images and their electrical brain responses did not reflect a highly different response to the emotional images.
"It could be that sleep deprivation universally impairs judgment, but it is more likely that lack of sleep causes neutral images to provoke an emotional response," the team noted.
The team also found that participants after only one night of lack of sleep were distracted by every single image (neutral and emotional).