The Balm of Hurt Minds
A study named “Overanxious and Underslept” done at UC Berkeley and published last month in the journal Nature Human Behaviour found that deep sleep, also known as non-rapid eye movement (NREM) slow wave sleep, calms and resets the anxious brain. This study provides one of the strongest neural links between sleep and anxiety to date - that insufficient sleep amplifies levels of anxiety (up to a 30% rise), and conversely, that deep sleep helps reduce such stress. A series of e