Sleep and emotional processing

Research is also progressively providing new insights into the protective role of sleep in human emotional homeostasis and regulation, promoting adaptive next-day emotional reactivity. In this respect, evidence converges in indicating that lack of sleep significantly influences emotional reactivity. Moreover, notwithstanding some contradictory findings, the processing of emotionally salient information could mainly benefit from REM sleep. However, some crucial aspects of sleep-dependent emotional modulation remain unclear.