Partial Sleep Deprivation Attenuates the Positive Affective System: Effects Across Multiple Measurement Modalities - PubMed (original) (raw)

Partial Sleep Deprivation Attenuates the Positive Affective System: Effects Across Multiple Measurement Modalities

Patrick H Finan et al. Sleep. 2017.

Abstract

Objective: Ample behavioral and neurobiological evidence links sleep and affective functioning. Recent self-report evidence suggests that the affective problems associated with sleep loss may be stronger for positive versus negative affective state and that those effects may be mediated by changes in electroencepholographically measured slow wave sleep (SWS). In the present study, we extend those preliminary findings using multiple measures of affective functioning.

Design: In a within-subject randomized crossover experiment, we tested the effects of one night of sleep continuity disruption via forced awakenings (FA) compared to one night of uninterrupted sleep (US) on three measures of positive and negative affective functioning: self-reported affective state, affective pain modulation, and affect-biased attention.

Setting: The study was set in an inpatient clinical research suite.

Participants: Healthy, good sleeping adults (N = 45) were included.

Measurement and results: Results indicated that a single night of sleep continuity disruption attenuated positive affective state via FA-induced reductions in SWS. Additionally, sleep continuity disruption attenuated the inhibition of pain by positive affect as well as attention bias to positive affective stimuli. Negative affective state, negative affective pain facilitation, nor negative attention bias were altered by sleep continuity disruption.

Conclusions: The present findings, observed across multiple measures of affective function, suggest that sleep continuity disruption has a stronger influence on the positive affective system relative to the negative affective affective system.

Keywords: affect; attention; depression; emotion; pain; sleep.

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Figure 1

Experimental design.

Figure 2

Effects of sleep continuity disruption on positive and negative affects. Means and standard errors of the means are presented for positive affect (PA) and negative affect (NA) reported following one night of uninterrupted sleep (US) and one night of forced awakenings (FA).

Figure 3

Effect of sleep continuity disruption on positive affect is mediated by loss of slow wave sleep. Regression coefficients for each main effect are presented for each path.

Figure 4

Effects of sleep continuity disruption on affective pain modulation. Means and standard errors of the means are presented for pain intensity associated with positive, negative, and neutral affective conditions, following one night of uninterrupted sleep (US) and one night of forced awakenings (FA).

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