Sleep and anxiety: From mechanisms to interventions

SL Chellappa, D Aeschbach - Sleep medicine reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Anxiety is the most common mental health problem worldwide. Epidemiological studies
show that sleep disturbances, particularly insomnia, affect∼ 50% of individuals with anxiety …

[HTML][HTML] Virtual reality in the diagnostic and therapy for mental disorders: A systematic review

A Wiebe, K Kannen, B Selaskowski, A Mehren… - Clinical Psychology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Virtual reality (VR) technologies are playing an increasingly important role in
the diagnostics and treatment of mental disorders. Objective To systematically review the …

Sleep disturbance and psychiatric disorders

D Freeman, B Sheaves, F Waite, AG Harvey… - The Lancet …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Signs of mental ill health that cut across psychiatric diagnostic categories at high rates are
typically viewed as non-specific occurrences, downgraded in importance and disregarded …

Sleep and emotional processing

D Tempesta, V Socci, L De Gennaro, M Ferrara - Sleep medicine reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
A growing body of literature suggests that sleep plays a critical role in emotional processing.
This review aims at synthesizing current evidence on the role of sleep and sleep loss in the …

The role of associative fear and avoidance learning in anxiety disorders: Gaps and directions for future research

A Pittig, M Treanor, RT LeBeau, MG Craske - … & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Anxiety disorders are the most common mental disorders and are often chronic and
disabling. Although exposure-based treatments are effective, a substantial number of …

The role of sleep in emotional brain function

AN Goldstein, MP Walker - Annual review of clinical psychology, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Rapidly emerging evidence continues to describe an intimate and causal relationship
between sleep and emotional brain function. These findings are mirrored by long-standing …

Memory reconsolidation, emotional arousal, and the process of change in psychotherapy: New insights from brain science

RD Lane, L Ryan, L Nadel… - Behavioral and brain …, 2015 - cambridge.org
Since Freud, clinicians have understood that disturbing memories contribute to
psychopathology and that new emotional experiences contribute to therapeutic change. Yet …

A systematic review of sleep disturbance in anxiety and related disorders

RC Cox, BO Olatunji - Journal of anxiety disorders, 2016 - Elsevier
Recent research suggests that sleep disturbance may be a transdiagnostic process, and
there is increasing interest in examining how sleep disturbance may contribute to anxiety …

Overnight neuronal plasticity and adaptation to emotional distress

Y Cabrera, KJ Koymans, GR Poe, HW Kessels… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Expressions such as 'sleep on it'refer to the resolution of distressing experiences across a
night of sound sleep. Sleep is an active state during which the brain reorganizes the …

Sleep disturbance in PTSD and other anxiety-related disorders: an updated review of clinical features, physiological characteristics, and psychological and …

A Richards, JC Kanady, TC Neylan - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2020 - nature.com
The current report provides an updated review of sleep disturbance in posttraumatic stress
disorder and anxiety-related disorders. First, this review provides a summary description of …