Never Go to Bed Angry

First Name: Derek                    
Current Event Posting Number: 1                             
Topic: Health
Title: Really? The Claim: Never Go to Bed Angry           
Publication: New York Times                                         
Author: ANAHAD O'CONNOR          
Date of Publication: January 30, 2012, 10:47 AM
 Length of article: 453 words 


             The saying that going to bed upset will fester hard feelings and resentment goes back in the Bible:  “Let not the sun go down upon your wrath”-Ephesians 4:26. In recent study, Mr. O'CONNOR suggested that going to sleep after experiencing negative emotions preserves and reinforces them. According to The Journal of Neuroscience, sleep enhances emotional memory while preserving emotional reactivity. Sleep deprivation may reduce posttraumatic stress disorder, which presumes that emotional memory consolidation is paralleled by reduction in emotional reactivity. During an experiment at the National Center for Biotechnological Information, patients' reactivity to negative pictures was reduced to lower amount when they're awake than during REM sleep. Researchers Baran B, Pace-Schott EF, Ericson C, Spencer RM recruited 106 men and women and exposed them to images that elicited various emotions. They looked at what happened when the subjects were shown both new images and the previous ones 12 hours later. The scientists then recorded the brain activities during REM (rapid eye movement) sleep. 
              Results were shown that the disturbing images after a night of sleep, their response was just as strong as when they had first seen them. This means that sleep protected and stored the emotional response. Try not to sleep upset or disturbed because it preserves the emotion.