But a chronic lack of sleep can have a less well-acknowledged — and perhaps even more significant — impact on our mental health. But if a lack of sleep is harmful to mental health, can improving sleep reduce the severity of mental illness? It looks like there is an overlap between brain networks that govern our mental health and the brain circuits that generate sleep. But if a lack of sleep is harmful to mental health, can improving sleep reduce the severity of mental illness? Another parasomnia, REM sleep behaviour disorder, is where you act out vivid dreams during REM sleep.

Source: Daily Mail January 31, 2020 00:58 UTC