The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
when the child is exhausted maybe they haven't been sleeping as well maybe they missed their nap maybe they've been awake for typically longer than they would do otherwise they're probably going to go into deep non-rem sleep in a more intense fashion or with greater amounts of deep sleep duration which is therefore going to mean that the probabilistic likelihood of them having one of these night terrors is increased as a consequence
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in part it's because many of these night terror events seem to happen from deep non-rem sleep dreamless sleep rather than rapid eye movement sleep
exhaustion triggers the terrors so when their child is actually well-rested he doesn't get them
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