I never understood why in medical internships, doctors on call were forced to function and make critical decisions while sleep-deprived. Sleep deprivation causes cortical thinning. The doctors' precious brains were being destroyed.Firstly, results from sleep studies suggest that the amount of accumulated awake time is associated with the performance in attentional tasks, thus making attentional maintenance more variable and inconsistent. Secondly, such variability is manifested in errors of omission (i.e., failure to respond in a timely manner or attention lapses) and errors of commission (i.e., response to stimuli that are not present). These errors can be detected by specialized, reliable, and valid tests such as the Psychomotor Vigilance Test which is simple enough to avoid learning effects and is sensitive to sleep loss. Thirdly, brain studies have shown that sleep deprivation (SD) is positively correlated with decreased activity in the prefrontal cortex (PFC), visual, parietal, and premotor areas during attention tasks.
Firstly, sleep and physical activity are known to affect working memory. While sleep deprivation causes deficits in working memory performance, physical activity improves working memory function.
Regression models show diverse associations of external factors such as sleep, activity, mood, and physiology with brain network dynamics in the default mode, fronto-parietal, cingulo-opercular, and somatomotor networks. Time-lagged cross-correlation analyses suggest that the associations between brain connectivity and these external factors extend beyond the previous day, spanning up to 15 days in the past, possibly reflecting a more prolonged and sustained relationship between external factors and neural processes.
Fragmented sleep increases subjective fatigue and deteriorates inhibition, even when the total sleep duration remains unchanged. Therefore, it is not surprising that supporting our hypotheses, our results show that restlessness is strongly associated with changes in brain connectivity during sustained attention tasks. Indeed, repeated disruptions in sleep are known to progressively reduce attention, with vigilant attention deficits building up across consecutive days of sleep restriction in a dose-dependent manner.
Sleep also plays a crucial role in efficient functioning of working memory. We observed that longer sleep and more interruptions during sleep are associated with greater integration of the DMN and FPN. However, the effect of sleep duration on working memory does not seem to occur immediately but is observed after a 2-week delay.
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