Getting bullied in school may affect kids’ sleep.Beware, it may produce long-lasting, depression-like sleep dysfunction and other effects on daily biological rhythms, warns a study.
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According to a Study:
- The findings in an animal model.
- It showed that being bullied can have dramatic effects on sleep and other circadian rhythm-related functions.
- Symptoms that are characteristic of clinical depression and other stress-induced mental illnesses in the long run.
- Stress is known to trigger psychiatric illnesses, including depression and PTSD.
- In addition,sleep is frequently affected in these conditions.
- “While our study found that some stress-related effects on circadian rhythms are short-lived, others are long-lasting,” said expert.
- “Identifying these changes and understanding their meaning is an important step in developing methods to counter the long-lasting effects of traumatic experiences on mental health”.
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Neuroscience:
- For the study, detailed in the Journal of Neuroscience.
- The team used mouse model a smaller, younger mouse was paired with a larger, older, and more aggressive mouse, who bullies the former.
- The results showed that the smaller mice showed many more bouts of paradoxical sleep -which resembles REM (rapid eye movement) sleep in humans.
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- Furthermore,when dreams occur and memories are strengthened the type of sleep disruptions often seen in people with depression.
- These bullied mice also showed a flattening of body temperature fluctuations an effect seen in people with depression.
- Both the sleep and body temperature changes persisted in the smaller mice.
- After they were removed from the physically and emotionally threatening environment,
- Suggesting that they had developed symptoms that look very much like those seen in people with long-term depression.
- However, it may also be possible to mitigate these effects both intensity and duration with the use of an experimental class of drugs that can block stress, the researchers said.
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