Research Hit: How Stress Disrupts Sleep Patterns in Your Brain

Stress disrupts regulation of key neurons that control sleep.

You’ve written about the sleep and the brain many times before. What special about this research?

Yes, sleep has become a common research theme and it’s importance had been underestimated but research seems to be catching up now. A lot of this has looked at general health and mental health factors but this research has focused on how precisely stress can disrupt sleep in the brain.

Doesn’t stress disrupt sleep because it’s stressful?

Well, yes, that’s what we feel, but what is actually happening in the brain is the interesting part. And these researchers found it disrupted sleep rhythms

How does this happen?