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