Trial reportSleep medicine2017
Task switching in older adults with and without insomnia.
Trial report in Sleep medicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
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- Effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation on cognition through sleep slow-wave activity in older adults.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2026Trial
- The association between slow wave activity and memory improvement following cognitive-behavioral therapy for insomnia in older adults: A secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2026Trial
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- Rest-Activity Rhythms and Cognition in Older Adults With and Without Insomnia.Journal of sleep research · 2026Article
- Impact of Poor Sleep Quality on Task Switching and Reconfiguration Process Among University Students.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- A pilot time-in-bed restriction intervention behaviorally enhances slow-wave activity in older adults.Frontiers in sleep · 2024Article
- A non-pharmacological multi-modal therapy to improve sleep and cognition and reduce mild cognitive impairment risk: Design and methodology of a randomized clinical trial.Contemporary clinical trials · 2023Article
- Age-related alterations in the cerebrovasculature affect neurovascular coupling and BOLD fMRI responses: Insights from animal models of aging.Psychophysiology · 2021Article
- Does objectively-assessed sleep moderate the association between history of major depressive disorder and task-switching?Journal of affective disorders · 2020Article
- Insomnia in Older Adults.Current geriatrics reports · 2019Article
- Efficacy of brief behavioral treatment for insomnia in older adults: examination of sleep, mood, and cognitive outcomes.Sleep medicine · 2018Article
- Slow-Wave Activity Enhancement to Improve Cognition.Trends in neurosciences · 2018Review
- Physiological Aging Influence on Brain Hemodynamic Activity during Task-Switching: A fNIRS Study.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2017Article
- Physical activity may mitigate sleep-related cognitive deficits in older adults: Findings from the IGNITE study.Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.)Article
- Effects of Brief Behavioral Treatment for Insomnia on Daily Associations between Self-Reported Sleep and Objective Cognitive Performance in Older Adults.Behavioral sleep medicineArticle
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Abstract
backgroundTask-switching deficits are common in older adults and in those with insomnia. Such deficits may be driven by difficulties with sleep continuity and dampened homeostatic sleep drive.
objectiveTo identify the aspects of task switching affected by insomnia and its treatment, and to determine whether such effects are associated with sleep continuity and homeostatic sleep drive.
methodsPolysomnographic sleep and task switching were tested in healthy older adults aged 60-93 years with insomnia (n = 48) and normal sleeping controls (n = 51). Assessments were repeated in the insomnia group after eight weeks of cognitive behavioral treatment for insomnia. Sleep measures included wake after sleep onset (WASO) and quantitative indices of homeostatic sleep drive (delta power during nonrapid eye movement [NREM] sleep and the ratio of delta power during the first and second NREM periods). A cued task-switching paradigm instructed participants to perform one of two tasks with varying preparatory cue-target intervals, manipulating task alternation, task repetition, and task preparation.
resultsThe effect of preparatory cues on accuracy was diminished in the insomnia group compared with that in controls. Across the two groups, a stronger effect of preparatory cues was associated with a higher delta sleep ratio. Following insomnia treatment, task-repetition accuracy significantly improved. This improvement was associated with improvements in WASO. There were no group or treatment effects on response time or task alternation accuracy.
conclusionsEffects of insomnia diagnosis and treatment apply to conditions that depend on the maintenance of a task set, rather than a domain general effect across task switching. Such effects are associated with homeostatic sleep drive and sleep continuity.
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