All-nighters will make you emotional

This isn't news to our students, but a new study found that sleep deprivation caused emotions to soar. We aren't talking about people just getting sentimental and listening to rock ballads on their ipods:

"While we predicted that the emotional centers of the brain would overreact after sleep deprivation, we didn't predict they'd overreact as much as they did," Walker said. "They became more than 60 percent more reactive to negative emotional stimuli. That's a whopping increase—the emotional parts of the brain just seem to run amok."

It becomes an interesting problem for the studio environment where so much work gets completed under stressful and compacted conditions.