An emerging literature is specifically focusing on the effects of sleep deprivation on aspects
of social functioning and underlying neural changes. Two critical facets of social behavior
emerge that are negatively impacted by sleep deprivation—self-regulation, which includes
behavioral and emotional regulation, and social monitoring, which includes perceiving and
interpreting cues relating to self and others. Sleep deprived individuals performing tasks with
social components show altered brain activity in areas of the prefrontal cortex implicated in …