Total sleep deprivation reduces top-down regulation of emotion without altering bottom-up affective processing.

ABSTRACT: Sleep loss is reported to influence affective processing, causing changes in overall mood and altering emotion regulation. These aspects of affective processing are seldom investigated together, making it difficult to determine whether total sleep deprivation has a global effect on how affective stimuli and emotions are processed, or whether specific components of affective processing are affected selectively. Sixty healthy adults were recruited for an in-laboratory study and, after a monitored night of sleep and laboratory acclimation, randomly assigned to either a total sleep deprivation condition (n = 40) or a rested control condition (n = 20). Measurements of mood, vigilant attention to affective stimuli, affective working memory, affective categorization, and emotion regulation were t

SUBMITTER: Stenson AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8412406 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature