The sleeping brain and the neural basis of emotions

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The human emotional brain without sleep—a prefrontal amygdala disconnect

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Overnight therapy? The role of sleep in emotional brain processing

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Neural bases of the non-conscious perception of emotional signals

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The Role of Sleep in Cognition and Emotion

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Dreaming and the brain: toward a cognitive neuroscience of conscious states

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REM sleep and dreaming: towards a theory of protoconsciousness

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Dream reports from different stages of sleep

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Dissociated pattern of activity in visual cortices and their projections during human rapid eye movement sleep

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Sleep Deprivation Impairs the Accurate Recognition of Human Emotions

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The cognit: A network model of cortical representation

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Mode of Functional Connectivity in Amygdala Pathways Dissociates Level of Awareness for Signals of Fear

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Thinking and hallucinating: Reciprocal changes in sleep

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REM and NREM sleep mentation

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Dreaming as Delirium

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Neurophysiological support of consciousness during waking and sleep

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Dreaming as Delirium: How the Brain Goes Out of Its Mind

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The Development Of The Science Of Dreaming

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The Functional Role of Dreaming in Emotional Processes

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In a randomized case–control trial with 10-years olds suffering from attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) sleep and psychological functioning improved during a 12-week sleep-training program

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Poor sleep is related to lower emotional competence among adolescents

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In Patients With Multiple Sclerosis, Both Objective and Subjective Sleep, Depression, Fatigue, and Paresthesia Improved After 3 Weeks of Regular Exercise

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Physical activity interventions can improve emotion regulation and dimensions of empathy in persons with multiple sclerosis: An exploratory study

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Abnormal whole-brain functional connectivity in patients with primary insomnia

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Heart rate variability and cordance in rapid eye movement sleep as biomarkers of depression and treatment response

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Discrimination of fearful and angry emotional voices in sleeping human neonates: a study of the mismatch brain responses

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The Associations Between Sleep and Externalizing and Internalizing Problems in Children and Adolescents with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

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Acute Exercise and Emotion Recognition in Young Adolescents

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Sleep in Tourette Syndrome

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Sources of Sleep Disturbances and Psychological Strain for Hospital Staff Working during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Brain reactivity to emotion persists in NREM sleep and is associated with individual dream recall

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Does rTMS on brain areas of mirror neurons lead to higher improvements on symptom severity and empathy compared to the rTMS standard procedure? – Results from a double-blind interventional study in individuals with major depressive disorders

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Among substance-abusing traffic offenders, poor sleep and poor general health predict lower driving skills but not slower reaction times

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Measuring Counterintuitiveness in Supernatural Agent Dream Imagery

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Further Evidence of the Zero-Association Between Symptoms of Insomnia and Facial Emotion Recognition—Results From a Sample of Adults in Their Late 30s

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The relationship between physical activity level and timing and sleep quality and hygiene in healthy individuals: a cross-sectional study

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The interaction between sleep disturbances and anxiety sensitivity in relation to adolescent anger responses to parent adolescent conflict☆

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The Associations Between Sleep and Externalizing and Internalizing Problems in Children and Adolescents with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

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Event-related potentials indicate differential neural reactivity to species and valence information in vocal stimuli in sleeping dogs

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Sleep-Wake States Are Encoded across Emotion Regulation Regions of the Mouse Brain

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Sleep and Emotional Functions

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Sleep, emotional regulation, and limbic-cortical dynamics: From basic mechanisms to clinical translation

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The role of REM sleep in emotional brain processing

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