A pilot time-in-bed restriction intervention behaviorally enhances slow-wave activity in older adults.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Identifying intervention methods that target sleep characteristics involved in memory processing is a priority for the field of cognitive aging. Older adults with greater sleep efficiency and non-rapid eye movement slow-wave activity (SWA) (0.5-4 Hz electroencephalographic activity) tend to exhibit better memory and cognitive abilities. Paradoxically, long total sleep times are consistently associated with poorer cognition in older adults. Thus, maximizing sleep efficiency and SWA may be a priority relative to increasing mere total sleep time. As clinical behavioral sleep treatments do not consistently enhance SWA, and propensity for SWA increases with time spent awake, we examined with a proof-of concept pilot intervention whether a greater dose of time-in-bed (TiB) r

SUBMITTER: Wilckens KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11210605 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature