Trial reportScientific reports2017
Sleep Deprivation Diminishes Attentional Control Effectiveness and Impairs Flexible Adaptation to Changing Conditions.
Trial report in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 30 papers.
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30 citing papers in PubMed, 78 citations in OpenAlex.
- Trait anxiety selectively amplifies reward learning under uncertainty, while N3 sleep attenuates it.iScience · 2026Article
- Inhibitory Decay and Supercritical Brain Dynamics During Sleep Deprivation.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Article
- Time-of-Day Variations and Effects of Total Sleep Deprivation on Attention Assessed with the Attentional Demands Task.Clocks & sleep · 2026Article
- Polygenic risk for schizophrenia is associated with psychomotor vigilance performance impairment during sleep deprivation in women.Translational psychiatry · 2026Article
- Sleep, coparenting, and parenting among mothers and fathers prior to kindergarten transition.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2025Article
- High risk, low rest: a new framework for monitoring sleep vulnerability in emergency medicine.Frontiers in public health · 2025Observational
- The effects of sleep deprivation on cognitive flexibility: a scoping review of outcomes and biological mechanisms.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Review
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- Alcohol and Caffeine Co-Administration Increased Acetylcholinesterase Activity and Inflammatory Cytokines in Sleep-Deprived Rats: Implications for Cognitive Decline and Depressive-Like Manifestations.Sleep science (Sao Paulo, Brazil) · 2024Article
- Altered Functional Connectivity of the Thalamus Subregions Associated with Impaired Attention After Sleep Deprivation.Nature and science of sleep · 2024Article
- Sleep deprivation alters utilization of negative feedback in risky decision-making.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Effects of caffeine and blue-enriched light on spare visual attention during simulated space teleoperation.NPJ microgravity · 2023Article
- Functional brain connectivity predicts sleep duration in youth and adults.Human brain mapping · 2023Article
- Sleep loss diminishes hippocampal reactivation and replay.Research square · 2023Article
- A narrative review of the physiology and health effects of burnout associated with veterinarian-pertinent occupational stressors.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2023Review
- The rat Lux Actuating Search Task (LAST) and effects of sleep deprivation on task reversal performance.Neurobiology of sleep and circadian rhythms · 2022Article
- Working around the Clock: Is a Person's Endogenous Circadian Timing for Optimal Neurobehavioral Functioning Inherently Task-Dependent?Clocks & sleep · 2022Article
- Image discrimination reversal learning is impaired by sleep deprivation in rats: Cognitive rigidity or fatigue?Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2022Article
- Electrodermal Activity Is Sensitive to Sleep Deprivation but Does Not Moderate the Effect of Total Sleep Deprivation on Affect.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
- Genetics and Cognitive Vulnerability to Sleep Deprivation in Healthy Subjects: Interaction of ADORA2A, TNF-α and COMT Polymorphisms.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issued
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6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Insufficient sleep is a global public health problem resulting in catastrophic accidents, increased mortality, and hundreds of billions of dollars in lost productivity. Yet the effect of sleep deprivation (SD) on decision making and performance is often underestimated by fatigued individuals and is only beginning to be understood by scientists. The deleterious impact of SD is frequently attributed to lapses in vigilant attention, but this account fails to explain many SD-related problems, such as loss of situational awareness and perseveration. Using a laboratory study protocol, we show that SD individuals can maintain information in the focus of attention and anticipate likely correct responses, but their use of such a top-down attentional strategy is less effective at preventing errors caused by competing responses. Moreover, when the task environment requires flexibility, performance under SD suffers dramatically. The impairment in flexible shifting of attentional control we observed is distinct from lapses in vigilant attention, as corroborated by the specificity of the influence of a genetic biomarker, the dopaminergic polymorphism DRD2 C957T. Reduced effectiveness of top-down attentional control under SD, especially when conditions require flexibility, helps to explain maladaptive performance that is not readily explained by lapses in vigilant attention.
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