Why the study?
Does total sleep deprivation alter cerebral responses during sustained attention tasks in healthy subjects?
Population
36 healthy subjects with intermediate chronotype
Comparison
Total sleep deprivation for one night with… vs Within-subject comparison across time points
Design
Other
Follow-up
One night (8 hours, from 22:00 to 06:00)
Authors
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Suggests circadian vulnerability to attention deficits during overnight shifts; leaves open whether targeted countermeasures can mitigate these.
Does total sleep deprivation alter cerebral responses during sustained attention tasks in healthy subjects?
One night of total sleep deprivation significantly alters activation in the cognitive control and default mode networks during sustained attention tasks, particularly in the early morning hours.
Zhu et al. (2017) studied this question.
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