Abstract
Sleep loss negatively impacts cognition and emotion processing through a degradation of frontally mediated networks essential to the regulation of neuropsychological functioning. This breakdown in regulation particularly impacts simple cognitive tasks. Additionally, it has a large impact on mood and emotional processes. Sleep loss reduces emotional intelligence, constructive thinking skills, and motivation, while increasing frustration, hostility, depression, and anxiety. Paradoxically total sleep deprivation causes a remission of symptoms for depressed patients. This may be driven by increasing low baseline levels of cortical excitability that bring depressed patients into an optimal range that healthy adults experience without sleep loss.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | Encyclopedia of Sleep and Circadian Rhythms |
Subtitle of host publication | Volume 1-6, Second Edition |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Pages | 361-370 |
Number of pages | 10 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9780323910941 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 1 2023 |
Keywords
- Affect
- Cognition
- Constructive thinking
- Depression
- Emotion
- Emotional intelligence
- Frustration tolerance
- Mood
- Neuroimaging
- Process-C
- Process-S
- Psychopathology
- Rhythms
- Sleep deprivation
- Sleep restriction
- Two-process model
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Neuroscience