Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have found that people who experience sleep problems feel lonely and are more likely to avoid contact with other people.. About this, as Lenta reports.. ru, according to a press release on MedicalXpress.

The study involved 18 young people who were examined after a normal night's sleep and insomnia.. In each case, the subjects watched a video the next day in which a person with a neutral facial expression approached the camera.. Volunteers had to press a button that would stop watching the video at the moment when they began to experience psychological discomfort..

It turned out that after a sleepless night, participants pressed the button much earlier than in the case of normal sleep..

In addition, the results of brain scans showed that in the brains of poorly rested subjects, a neural circuit was activated that is responsible for responding to potential threats.. Another area of \u200b\u200bthe brain that provides social interactions, on the contrary, turned out to be less active..

In the second part of the study, more than a thousand bystanders watched the recording of the experiment, unaware that the participants were sleep deprived.. In their opinion, the subjects were lonely people who avoided communication with others..

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