Trial reportPhysiology & behavior2016
Partial sleep deprivation impacts impulsive action but not impulsive decision-making.
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44 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Deprivation Has Inconsistent Effects on Delay Discounting: A Review.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Pooled it
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- Framing effect, probability distortion, and gambling tendency without feedback are resistant to two nights of experimental sleep restriction.Scientific reports · 2019Trial
- The Effects of Experimental Manipulation of Sleep Duration on Neural Response to Food Cues.Sleep · 2017Trial
- Associations between Self-Reported Daily Affect Ratings and Sleep Duration during the First Two Weeks of Antidepressant Therapy.Behavioral sleep medicineTrial
- Multivariate associations between sleep patterns and self-regulation in adolescence: Canonical correlation analysis across ABCD and NCANDA cohorts.Chronobiology international · 2026Article
- Short sleep recovery partially restores decision-making alterations induced by total sleep deprivation.Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society · 2026Article
- The effects of nicotine on sleep in female C57BL/6J mice.Behavioural brain research · 2025Article
- Examining the Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Decision-Making: A Scoping Review.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Methamphetamine related cues impact impulsive choice by decreasing loss aversion.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- The effects of sleep restriction and time of day on food-specific impulsivity, approach-avoidance bias and delay discounting.Health psychology and behavioral medicine · 2025Article
- Circadian rhythm sleep loss impairs motor inhibition more than motor execution in continuous action.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- The new science of sleep: From cells to large-scale societies.PLoS biology · 2024Article
- Neurocognitive consequences of adolescent sleep disruptions and their relationship to psychosis vulnerability: a longitudinal cohort study.Npj mental health research · 2024Article
- Too Tired to Think: Within and Between-Person Relations Among Impulsive Traits, Sleep Duration, and Mental Health Outcomes.International journal of mental health and addiction · 2024Article
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- Altered Postcentral Connectivity after Sleep Deprivation Correlates to Impaired Risk Perception: A Resting-State Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- Linking Sleep and Aggression: Examining the Role of Response Inhibition and Emotional Processing.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2023Article
- Regulation of dendritic spines in the amygdala following sleep deprivation.Frontiers in sleep · 2023Article
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Abstract
Sleep deprivation may lead to increased impulsivity, however, previous literature has focused on examining effects of total sleep deprivation (TSD) rather than the more common condition, partial sleep deprivation (PSD) or 'short sleep'. Moreover, it has been unclear whether PSD impacts impulse-related cognitive processes, and specifically if it differentially affects impulsive action versus impulsive decision-making. We sought to determine if short compared to long sleep (6 vs. 9h/night) impacts impulsive action via behavioral inhibition (Go/No-Go), and/or impulsive decision-making processes of risk taking (Balloon Analogue Risk Task [BART]) and preferences for immediate over delayed rewards (Delay Discounting). In a within-subject design, 34 participants (71% female, mean age=37.0years, SD=10.54) were assigned to four consecutive nights of 6h/night (short sleep) and 9h/night (long sleep) in their own home in random counterbalanced order. Sleep was measured via wrist-worn actigraphs to confirm adherence to the sleep schedules (mean short sleep=5.9h, SD=0.3; mean long sleep=8.6h, SD=0.3, p<0.001). The Go/No-Go, BART, and Delay Discounting tasks were completed following both sleep conditions. Participants had more inhibition errors on the Go/No-Go task after short (mean false alarms=19.79%, SD=14.51) versus long sleep (mean=15.97%, SD=9.51, p=0.039). This effect was strongest in participants reporting longer habitual time in bed (p=0.04). There were no differences in performance following long- versus short-sleep for either delay discounting or the BART (p's>0.4). Overall, these results indicate that four days of PSD diminishes behavioral inhibition abilities, but may not alter impulsive decision-making. These findings contribute to the emerging understanding of how partial sleep deprivation, currently an epidemic, impacts cognitive ability. Future research should continue to explore the connection between PSD and cognitive functions, and ways to minimize the occurrence and negative consequences of short sleep.
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