The study, released in the peer-reviewed journal Sleep, was conducted by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Close to half of Chinese medical personnel experienced insomnia in the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic
The study is considered to be the first of its kind aimed at psychological distress caused by the coronavirus.
The findings were published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
The study appeared in the journal Nature Genetics.
A recent study enforces this by demonstrating that sleep deprivation might increase diabetes risk.
New research has identified functional connectivities in the brain that mediate the association between depressive symptoms and poor sleep quality.
Sleep deprivation could result in social withdrawal and loneliness, according to UC Berkeley researchers.
This is the first study to show a two-way relationship between sleep loss and becoming socially isolated.
They found that the prevalence rate of BZD prescription increased from 0.81 per 100 inhabitants in 2006 to 0.99 per 100 inhabitants in 2013.
“The relation between depression and sleep has been observed more than one hundred years, and now we have identified the neural mechanisms of how they are connected for the first time."