Andrew Huberman· PhD
without sleep we found that that connection had been severed
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without sleep we found that that connection had been severed
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it is as if the um, brain is fighting for any sense of Peace it can possibly get and that peace is interrupted by almost anything and everything it is a grim situation and we've certainly heard that from you know patients and individuals it's almost as though the world that they are experiencing they look at and they say you know what you're in an 11 and I need you at a seven right now it is just too much and this comes back to that result that we described that when the amydala crosses the threshold and says okay things are getting emotional things are getting unpleasant I'm going to be responding negatively in an angry way or a fearful way that starts much earlier so the threshold for triggering your emotional aversive reaction is much lower
Sleep loss makes your brain 60% more reactive to stress by disconnecting emotion (amygdala) from control (prefrontal cortex).
what happens is it changes your set point and it impairs that prefrontal cortex and its ability to modulate pain