Overnight therapy? The role of sleep in emotional brain processing
sleep · Psychological Bulletin, 135(5), 731–748 · 2009
Walker (2009) discovered that sleep is essentially a biological 'stress-extraction' system. Dreams aren't just weird movies; they are the literal mechanism that stops you from being traumatized by your own life.
Authors
Walker, M. P., van der Helm, E.
Research lens
Walker (2009) discovered that sleep is essentially a biological 'stress-extraction' system. Dreams aren't just weird movies; they are the literal mechanism that stops you from being traumatized by your own life.
- sleep
- neuroplasticity