Association of Sleep Quality on Memory-Related Executive Functions in Middle Age.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Sleep quality affects memory and executive function in older adults, but little is known about its effects in midlife. If it affects cognition in midlife, it may be a modifiable factor for later-life functioning.

Methods

We examined the association between sleep quality and cognition in 1220 middle-aged male twins (age 51-60 years) from the Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging. We interviewed participants with the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index and tested them for episodic memory as well as executive functions of inhibitory and interference control, updating in working memory, and set shifting. Interference control was assessed during episodic memory, inhibitory control during working memory, and non-memory conditions and set shifting during working memory and non-memo

SUBMITTER: Rana BK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5958545 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature