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GUEST SERIES | Dr. Matt Walker: Improve Sleep to Boost Mood & Emotional Regulation
Huberman Lab
Biological Model of REM Sleep and Emotional Processing
REM sleep plays a crucial role in emotional processing during sleep, facilitating emotional depotentiation and detox the next day. This stage of sleep is characterized by a complete shut off of noradrenaline and serotonin, stress-related neurochemicals, while acetylcholine increases. Noradrenaline and serotonin being shut off specifically in the brain allows for emotional memory reactivation and reprocessing while in a neurochemically safe environment, leading to stripping away the emotion from memory.
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