Naps with rapid eye movement sleep increase receptiveness to positive emotion
Wednesday, June 10, 2009 - 06:56
in Psychology & Sociology
Naps with rapid eye movement (REM) sleep refresh the brain's empathetic sensitivity for evaluating human emotions by decreasing a negative bias and amplifying recognition of positive emotions, according to a research that will be presented today at SLEEP 2009...
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