Visual Attention and Poor Sleep Quality.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Sleep deprivation disrupts visual attention; however, the effects of chronic poor sleep quality on it are not understood. The dorsal attention network (DAN) and the ventral attention network (VAN) are involved in visual attention and search (VSA), with the DAN being important for the serial attention network and the VAN for parallel "pop-out" visual search.

Objective

The aim of the study was to evaluate correlation of sleep quality with visual attention and search, functional, and tracts' properties of the DAN and VAN.

Materials and methods

We recruited 79 young male subjects and assessed their sleep quality using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), dividing subjects into poor sleepers (PSs) and good sleepers (GSs) based on a cutoff of 5. Daytime sle

SUBMITTER: Abdolalizadeh A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9202476 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature