Sleep and Anxiety

Guest: Eti Ben-Simon, Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Center for Human Sleep Science, University of California, Berkeley Have you felt anxious today? How well did you sleep last night? The two are so connected that when researchers at the Center for Human Sleep Science at UC Berkeley took 18 perfectly healthy adults and forced them to stay awake all night, the next day, half of the poor souls registered anxiety levels high enough they’d normally trigger a clinical diagnoses of anxiety disorder. (Originally aired 1/7/20)