Publications by authors named "Minea Antila"
Article Synopsis
- Sleep plays a significant role in regulating emotions, but its specific contributions, particularly concerning physiological responses to stress, are not well understood.
- A study involving Finnish participants explored the effects of suppressing specific sleep stages (REM and slow-wave sleep) on stress responses and memory, finding that suppressing slow-wave sleep resulted in a greater physiological stress response.
- The research suggests that REM sleep, specifically its theta brain activity, helps consolidate emotional responses, while the dependence of declarative memory consolidation on sleep stages is less clear.
Sleep is especially important for emotional memories, although the mechanisms for prioritizing emotional content are insufficiently known. As during waking, emotional processing during sleep may be hemispherically asymmetric; right-lateralized rapid-eye movement (REM) sleep theta (~4-7 Hz) is reportedly associated with emotional memory retention. No research exists on lateralized non-REM sleep oscillations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAccumulating evidence emphasizes the relevance of oscillatory synchrony in memory consolidation during sleep. Sleep spindles promote memory retention, especially when occurring in the depolarized upstate of slow oscillation (SO). A less studied topic is the inter-spindle synchrony, i.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe used crowdsourcing (CS) to examine how COVID-19 lockdown affects the content of dreams and nightmares. The CS took place on the sixth week of the lockdown. Over the course of 1 week, 4,275 respondents (mean age 43, SD = 14 years) assessed their sleep, and 811 reported their dream content.
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