# How sleep affects your emotions

- Institution: TED
- Department: Sleeping with Science
- Speaker: Matt Walker
- Year: 2020
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Medicine and health
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/matt_walker_how_sleep_affects_your_emotions)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

It's not just your imagination -- you're more irritable when you're low on zzzzs. Sleep scientist Matt Walker explains how our nightly slumber affects the emotional centers in our brains, and why we can think of sleep as first aid for our feelings.

## Lectures

1. [How sleep affects your emotions](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/matt_walker_how_sleep_affects_your_emotions/28b2bf393899), 4 min (TED's player)