Personality and psychopathic changes

William D.S. Killgore, Tracy Jill Doty

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

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 languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationEncyclopedia of Sleep and Circadian Rhythms
Subtitle of host publicationVolume 1-6, Second Edition
PublisherElsevier
Pages361-370
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9780323910941
DOIs
StatePublished - 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

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