Impaired Vigilant Attention Partly Accounts for Inhibition Control Deficits After Total Sleep Deprivation and Partial Sleep Restriction

Mao, Tianxin; Dinges, David F.; Deng, Yao; Zhao, Ke; Yang, Zijing; Lei, Hui; Fang, Zhuo; Yang, Fan Nils; Galli, Olga; Goel, Namni; Basner, Mathias; Rao, Hengyi

doi:10.2147/nss.s314769

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“…Previous studies reported attention deficits, memory problems, and impaired executive functions after either total or partial sleep deprivation. 17 , 33 , 34 It is known that patients with mTBI can suffer from long-term cognitive difficulties and lower quality of life. This study showed that moderate-severe sleep disturbances are associated with delayed recovery of cognitive functions and unfavorable long-term outcomes post-mTBI.…”

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Association between Sleep Disturbances at Subacute Stage of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Long-Term Outcomes

Tang

Rhodes

Jiang

et al. 2022

Neurotrauma Reports

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Mild (mTBI) traumatic brain injury (TBI) accounts for the majority of all TBI cases. Evidence has suggested that patients with mTBI can suffer from long-lasting cognitive deficits, persistent symptoms, and decreased quality of life. Sleep disorders are commonly observed after TBI, with the prevalence rate of sleep disturbances in persons with TBI being much higher than that in the general population. Poor sleep quality can impair cognitive functions in the general population. This effect of sleep disturbances may impede the recovery processes in the population with TBI. The objective of this study is to add to our understanding of the relationship between self-reported sleep problems and other post-concussion symptoms and look at the association between early sleep problems and long-term outcomes in mTBI. Post-concussion symptoms, neurocognitive functions, level of global outcomes, and rating of satisfaction of life were assessed in 64 patients with mTBI. The results revealed that the presence of sleep disturbances co-occur with an increased level of overall post-concussion symptoms at the subacute stage of mTBI, particularly with symptoms including poor concentration, memory problems, and irritability. In addition, sleep disturbance at the subacute stage is associated with persistent poor concentration and memory problems, as well as worse neurocognitive function, slower overall recovery, and lower satisfactory of life at the long term. Our findings suggest that sleep disturbance can be a prognostic factor of long-term outcomes after mTBI. Early interventions to improve sleep quality can have potential benefits to facilitate the recovery process from mTBI.

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Association between Sleep Disturbances at Subacute Stage of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Long-Term Outcomes

Tang

Rhodes

Jiang

et al. 2022

Neurotrauma Reports

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“…However, the advent of 24/7 technology and increasingly demanding daily routines has led to widespread sleep loss, which has been a major public health concern in the contemporary society. Numerous studies have consistently demonstrated that lack of sleep results in significant performance deficits across a broad range of neurocognitive functions, particularly vigilant attention, motor responses, inhibition control, and working memory (Chee & Choo, 2004; Czisch et al., 2012; Dinges et al., 1997; Eide et al., 2021; Goel et al., 2009, 2013; Hudson et al., 2020; Liew & Aung, 2021; Mao et al., 2021).…”

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Sleep deprivation attenuates neural responses to outcomes from risky decision‐making

Mao,

Fang,

Chai

et al. 2023

Psychophysiology

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Sleep loss impacts a broad range of brain and cognitive functions. However, how sleep deprivation affects risky decision‐making remains inconclusive. This study used functional MRI to examine the impact of one night of total sleep deprivation (TSD) on risky decision‐making behavior and the underlying brain responses in healthy adults. In this study, we analyzed data from N = 56 participants in a strictly controlled 5‐day and 4‐night in‐laboratory study using a modified Balloon Analogue Risk Task. Participants completed two scan sessions in counter‐balanced order, including one scan during rested wakefulness (RW) and another scan after one night of TSD. Results showed no differences in participants' risk‐taking propensity and risk‐induced activation between RW and TSD. However, participants showed significantly reduced neural activity in the anterior cingulate cortex and bilateral insula for loss outcomes, and in bilateral putamen for win outcomes during TSD compared with RW. Moreover, risk‐induced activation in the insula negatively correlated with participants' risk‐taking propensity during RW, while no such correlations were observed after TSD. These findings suggest that sleep loss may impact risky decision‐making by attenuating neural responses to decision outcomes and impairing brain‐behavior associations.

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“…It also has important implications for understanding the degree to which sleep deprivation effects are generally driven by vigilant attention deficits, even on tasks other than those measuring vigilant attention (cf. Mao et al, 2021).…”

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Effects of total sleep deprivation on components of top‐down attentional control using a flexible attentional control task

Stenson

Whitney

Hinson

et al. 2022

Journal of Sleep Research

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Summary Sleep deprivation consistently decreases vigilant attention, which can lead to difficulty in performing a variety of cognitive tasks. However, sleep‐deprived individuals may be able to compensate for degraded vigilant attention by means of top‐down attentional control. We employed a novel task to measure the degree to which individuals overcome impairments in vigilant attention by using top‐down attentional control, the Flexible Attentional Control Task (FACT). The FACT is a two‐choice task that has trials with valid, invalid, and neutral cues, along with an unexpected switch in the probability of cue validity about halfway in the task. The task provides indices that isolate performance components reflecting vigilant attention and top‐down attentional control. Twelve healthy young adults completed an in‐laboratory study. After a baseline day, the subjects underwent 39 hours of total sleep deprivation (TSD), followed by a recovery day. The FACT was administered at 03:00, 11:00, and 19:00 during sleep deprivation (TSD condition) and at 11:00 and 19:00 after baseline sleep and at 11:00 after recovery sleep (rested condition). When rested, the subjects demonstrated both facilitation and interference effects on cued trials. While sleep deprived, the subjects showed vigilant attention deficits on neutral cue trials, and an impaired ability to reduce these deficits by using predictive contextual cues. Our results indicate that the FACT can dissociate vigilant attention from top‐down attentional control. Furthermore, they show that during sleep deprivation, contextual cues help individuals to compensate partially for impairments in vigilant attention, but the effectiveness of top‐down attentional control is diminished.

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Impaired Vigilant Attention Partly Accounts for Inhibition Control Deficits After Total Sleep Deprivation and Partial Sleep Restriction

Cited by 21 publications

References 81 publications

Association between Sleep Disturbances at Subacute Stage of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Long-Term Outcomes

Association between Sleep Disturbances at Subacute Stage of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Long-Term Outcomes

Sleep deprivation attenuates neural responses to outcomes from risky decision‐making

Effects of total sleep deprivation on components of top‐down attentional control using a flexible attentional control task

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