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Total sleep deprivation reduces top-down regulation of emotion without altering bottom-up affective processing
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 sti...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8412406/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34473768 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256983 |
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author | Stenson, Anthony R. Kurinec, Courtney A. Hinson, John. M. Whitney, Paul Van Dongen, Hans P. A. |
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description | 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 taken for both groups. With one exception, measures of interest were administered twice: once at baseline and again 24 hours later, after the sleep deprived group had spent a night awake (working memory was assessed only after total sleep deprivation). Sleep deprived individuals experienced an overall reduction in positive affect with no significant change in negative affect. Despite the substantial decline in positive affect, there was no evidence that processing affectively valenced information was biased under total sleep deprivation. Sleep deprived subjects did not rate affective stimuli differently from rested subjects, nor did they show sleep deprivation-specific effects of affect type on vigilant attention, working memory, and categorization tasks. However, sleep deprived subjects showed less effective regulation of negative emotion. Overall, we found no evidence that total sleep deprivation biased the processing of affective stimuli in general. By contrast, total sleep deprivation appeared to reduce controlled processing required for emotion regulation. |
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spelling | pubmed-84124062021-09-03 Total sleep deprivation reduces top-down regulation of emotion without altering bottom-up affective processing Stenson, Anthony R. Kurinec, Courtney A. Hinson, John. M. Whitney, Paul Van Dongen, Hans P. A. PLoS One Research Article 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 taken for both groups. With one exception, measures of interest were administered twice: once at baseline and again 24 hours later, after the sleep deprived group had spent a night awake (working memory was assessed only after total sleep deprivation). Sleep deprived individuals experienced an overall reduction in positive affect with no significant change in negative affect. Despite the substantial decline in positive affect, there was no evidence that processing affectively valenced information was biased under total sleep deprivation. Sleep deprived subjects did not rate affective stimuli differently from rested subjects, nor did they show sleep deprivation-specific effects of affect type on vigilant attention, working memory, and categorization tasks. However, sleep deprived subjects showed less effective regulation of negative emotion. Overall, we found no evidence that total sleep deprivation biased the processing of affective stimuli in general. By contrast, total sleep deprivation appeared to reduce controlled processing required for emotion regulation. Public Library of Science 2021-09-02 /pmc/articles/PMC8412406/ /pubmed/34473768 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256983 Text en © 2021 Stenson et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Stenson, Anthony R. Kurinec, Courtney A. Hinson, John. M. Whitney, Paul Van Dongen, Hans P. A. Total sleep deprivation reduces top-down regulation of emotion without altering bottom-up affective processing |
title | Total sleep deprivation reduces top-down regulation of emotion without altering bottom-up affective processing |
title_full | Total sleep deprivation reduces top-down regulation of emotion without altering bottom-up affective processing |
title_fullStr | Total sleep deprivation reduces top-down regulation of emotion without altering bottom-up affective processing |
title_full_unstemmed | Total sleep deprivation reduces top-down regulation of emotion without altering bottom-up affective processing |
title_short | Total sleep deprivation reduces top-down regulation of emotion without altering bottom-up affective processing |
title_sort | total sleep deprivation reduces top-down regulation of emotion without altering bottom-up affective processing |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8412406/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34473768 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256983 |
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