Evaluating the timing of differences in activity related to depression symptoms across adulthood in the United States

Smagula, Stephen F.; Capps, Chandler S; Krafty, Robert T.

doi:10.1016/j.jad.2021.01.069

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“…While disrupted sleep can negatively impact mood, low morning affect can exacerbate depressogenic behaviours. A recent pilot study targeting morning activation deficits decreased depression symptoms by 62% in dementia caregivers (Smagula et al, 2022), supporting mornings as a critical treatment window for behavioural activation interventions (Smagula et al, 2021).…”

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confidence: 94%

“…Behaviourally, lower morning affect may decrease or delay engagement in behavioural activating activities, which in turn may reinforce depressed mood. Morning activity deficits are stronger predictors of depression compared with activity deficits later in the day (Smagula et al, 2021). Such deficits may decrease opportunities for exposure to environmental light, which can have acute mood‐elevating effects (Cajochen, 2007; Vandewalle et al, 2010).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, this was a relative healthy sample, and the diurnal rhythm of affect may be blunted or shifted later in depression (Miller et al, 2015; Murray, 2007), resulting in reduced positive affect in the morning (Peeters et al, 2006). Reduced positive affect upon waking may be linked to low morning activity levels in depression (Smagula et al, 2021); however, it is unclear how the prior night's sleep may affect this relationship. While we have previously reported longer sleep duration relative to a person's average was associated with better morning affect in the current sample (Carney et al, 2022), we aim to extend these findings by testing whether depression severity moderates the sleep and affect relationship across multiple facets of sleep, which adds a critical component to our conceptualisation of the reciprocity of the relationship between affect and sleep.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Waking up on the wrong side of the bed: Depression severity moderates daily associations between sleep duration and morning affect

Wescott,

Taylor,

Klevens

et al. 2023

Journal of Sleep Research

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SummaryMornings are salient times for disrupted affect that may be impacted by prior sleep. The current study extends work linking sleep disruptions with negative affect by examining how nightly changes in sleep duration, timing, and quality relative to a person's average impact morning affect. We further tested whether depression severity moderated the relationship between nightly variations in sleep and morning affect. This is a secondary analysis of participants ages 18–65 years with varying levels of depression (N = 91) who wore an Actiwatch for 3–17 days (n = 73) while reporting morning affect using a visual analogue scale. Multilevel models tested the previous night's sleep duration, timing, or quality as a predictor of morning affect. Sleep measures were group‐mean centred to account for nightly variation in participants' sleep. A cross‐level interaction between depression severity and nightly sleep was entered. Sleeping longer (b = 0.1; p < 0.001) and later (b = 1.8; p = 0.01) than usual were both associated with better morning mood. There was a significant interaction between nightly actigraphic sleep duration and depression severity on morning affect (b = 0.003; p = 0.003). Participants with higher depression severity reported worse affect upon waking after sleeping less than their usual. In comparison, sleeping less than usual did not affect morning affect ratings for participants with lower depression. A similar interaction was found for sleep quality (b = 0.02; p < 0.001). There was no interaction for midsleep timing. Sleeping less than usual impacted morning affect in individuals with greater depression, potentially suggesting a pathway by which sleep disturbances perpetuate depression.

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Waking up on the wrong side of the bed: Depression severity moderates daily associations between sleep duration and morning affect

Wescott,

Taylor,

Klevens

et al. 2023

Journal of Sleep Research

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“…The association between E dominant behavior and the depressive symptom might reflect a disruption of circadian rhythm, which could play a crucial role in regulating mood and sleep–wake cycles since disruptions in the circadian rhythms, such as delayed sleep–wake timing, have been associated with increased risk of depressive symptoms and mood disorders [ 51 ]. Alternatively, individuals with depression may reduce daytime activity and compensate for total physical activity by increasing their evening activity when they feel energetic [ 52 , 53 ]. The latter possibility might explain our result in which E dominant (risk group) and M dominant (control group) behavior showed a similar total count activity.…”

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Twenty-four-hour physical activity patterns associated with depressive symptoms: a cross-sectional study using big data-machine learning approach

Nawrin,

Inada,

Momma

et al. 2024

BMC Public Health

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Background Depression is a global burden with profound personal and economic consequences. Previous studies have reported that the amount of physical activity is associated with depression. However, the relationship between the temporal patterns of physical activity and depressive symptoms is poorly understood. In this exploratory study, we hypothesize that a particular temporal pattern of daily physical activity could be associated with depressive symptoms and might be a better marker than the total amount of physical activity. Methods To address the hypothesis, we investigated the association between depressive symptoms and daily dominant activity behaviors based on 24-h temporal patterns of physical activity. We conducted a cross-sectional study on NHANES 2011–2012 data collected from the noninstitutionalized civilian resident population of the United States. The number of participants that had the whole set of physical activity data collected by the accelerometer is 6613. Among 6613 participants, 4242 participants had complete demography and Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) questionnaire, a tool to quantify depressive symptoms. The association between activity-count behaviors and depressive symptoms was analyzed using multivariable logistic regression to adjust for confounding factors in sequential models. Results We identified four physical activity-count behaviors based on five physical activity-counting patterns classified by unsupervised machine learning. Regarding PHQ-9 scores, we found that evening dominant behavior was positively associated with depressive symptoms compared to morning dominant behavior as the control group. Conclusions Our results might contribute to monitoring and identifying individuals with latent depressive symptoms, emphasizing the importance of nuanced activity patterns and their probability of assessing depressive symptoms effectively.

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“…However, some research indicates that, in diagnosed depressives, this peak in low mood occurs in early morning (Zerssen et al, 1985). This is coincident with the lowest behavioural activity in depressed adults over age 30 (Smagula et al, 2021). It is pertinent to note, though, that most recordings which illustrate circadian oscillations in the LHb were made in or from tissue prepared from nocturnal rodents.…”

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Circadian Influences on the Habenula and Their Potential Contribution to Neuropsychiatric Disorders

Young

Lyons

Piggins

2022

Front. Behav. Neurosci.

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The neural circadian system consists of the master circadian clock in the hypothalamic suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN) communicating time of day cues to the rest of the body including other brain areas that also rhythmically express circadian clock genes. Over the past 16 years, evidence has emerged to indicate that the habenula of the epithalamus is a candidate extra-SCN circadian oscillator. When isolated from the SCN, the habenula sustains rhythms in clock gene expression and neuronal activity, with the lateral habenula expressing more robust rhythms than the adjacent medial habenula. The lateral habenula is responsive to putative SCN output factors as well as light information conveyed to the perihabenula area. Neuronal activity in the lateral habenula is altered in depression and intriguingly disruptions in circadian rhythms can elevate risk of developing mental health disorders including depression. In this review, we will principally focus on how circadian and light signals affect the lateral habenula and evaluate the possibility that alteration in these influences contribute to mental health disorders.

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Evaluating the timing of differences in activity related to depression symptoms across adulthood in the United States

Cited by 11 publications

References 37 publications

Waking up on the wrong side of the bed: Depression severity moderates daily associations between sleep duration and morning affect

Waking up on the wrong side of the bed: Depression severity moderates daily associations between sleep duration and morning affect

Twenty-four-hour physical activity patterns associated with depressive symptoms: a cross-sectional study using big data-machine learning approach

Circadian Influences on the Habenula and Their Potential Contribution to Neuropsychiatric Disorders

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