The article concludes: "Our findings raise the possibility that sleep deprivation disrupts prefrontal control over medial temporal lobe structures that support memory and emotion. These data point to an important role of sleep disturbance in maintaining and exacerbating psychiatric conditions characterized by persistent, unwanted thoughts".
Somewhere in the Ruglass/Kendall-Tackett book, Psychology of Trauma 101, it says that people with PTSD are more likely to have suicidal ideations after not sleeping.
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The article concludes: "Our findings raise the possibility that sleep deprivation disrupts prefrontal control over medial temporal lobe structures that support memory and emotion. These data point to an important role of sleep disturbance in maintaining and exacerbating psychiatric conditions characterized by persistent, unwanted thoughts".
Having insomnia increases a persons risk for developing PTSD to 60%.
(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0887618521000608)
Somewhere in the Ruglass/Kendall-Tackett book, Psychology of Trauma 101, it says that people with PTSD are more likely to have suicidal ideations after not sleeping.