title: Failure to find executive function deficits following one night's total sleep deprivation in university students under naturalistic conditions.
abstract: Young adult male students participated in a naturalistic, group-design experiment to ascertain the effects of one night's total sleep deprivation (TSD) on performance of diverse executive function tasks presented as an extended, multitask battery. On the majority of component tasks in this battery, performance has been reported to be impaired following one night's TSD when tasks are administered in isolation. However, participants sleep deprived 35 to 39 hr showed few performance deficits among tests in this battery when compared with non-sleep-deprived controls. Sleep-deprived participants showed only poorer recognition memory and overconfidence in incorrect temporal judgments. Behavioral and physiological adaptation to chronically sleep-restricting lifestyles may confer resistance to the cognitive effects of sleep deprivation in high-functioning young adults.
authors: Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 02215, USA. epacesch@bidmc.harvard.edu
authors: Edward F
authors: EF
authors: Pace-Schott
authors: Cendri A
authors: CA
authors: Hutcherson
authors: Brenda
authors: B
authors: Bemporad
authors: Alexandra
authors: A
authors: Morgan
authors: Arjun
authors: A
authors: Kumar
authors: J Allan
authors: JA
authors: Hobson
authors: Robert
authors: R
authors: Stickgold
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D003071:Cognition; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D012890:Sleep; D012892:Sleep Deprivation / Q000523:psychology*; D013334:Students; D013997:Time Factors; D014851:Wakefulness