Increased impulsivity in response to food cues after sleep loss in healthy young men
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OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether acute total sleep deprivation (TSD) leads to decreased cognitive control when food cues are presented during a task requiring active attention, by assessing the ability to cognitively inhibit prepotent responses. METHODS: Fourteen males participated in the study on two separate occasions in a randomized, crossover within-subject design: one night of TSD versus normal sleep (8.5 hours). Following each nighttime intervention, hunger ratings and morning fasting plasma glucose concentrations were assessed before performing a go/no-go task. RESULTS: Following TSD, participants made significantly more commission errors when they were presented "no-go" food words in the go/no-go task, as compared with their performance following sleep (+56%; P<0.05). In contrast, response time and omission errors to "go" non-food words did not differ between the conditions. Self-reported hunger after TSD was increased without changes in fasting plasma glucose. The increase in hunger did not correlate with the TSD-induced commission errors. CONCLUSIONS: Our results suggest that TSD impairs cognitive control also in response to food stimuli in healthy young men. Whether such loss of inhibition or impulsiveness is food cue-specific as seen in obesity-thus providing a mechanism through which sleep disturbances may promote obesity development-warrants further investigation.
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Acute sleep loss impairs the ability to cognitively inhibit pre-potent responses to rewarding food stimuli.
“Acute sleep loss increases food intake and ideal portion sizes (Hogenkamp et al., 2013;St-Onge et al., 2011), accentuates the brain's hedonic response to food (Benedict et al., 2012), and relatedly, impairs the ability to cognitively inhibit pre-potent responses to rewarding food stimuli (Cedernaes et al., 2014; topics reviewed in Cedernaes et al., 2015a).”
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Sleep restriction increases craving and intake of food during morning hours.
“which have demonstrated that sleep restriction increases craving and intake of food during morning hours (Benedict et al., 2012;Cedernaes et al., 2014;Chapman et al., 2013;Hogenkamp et al., 2013;St-Onge et al., 2011)”
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- Authors
- Cedernaes, J., Brandell, J., Ros, O., Broman, J., Hogenkamp, P. S., Schiöth, H. B., & Benedict, C.
- Affiliations
- Uppsala University (SE)
- Corresponding author
- Cedernaes, Jonathan
- Venue
- Obesity
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2014-05-16
- Volume
- 22
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 1786-1791
- ISSN
- 1930-7381 (ISSN-L)
- 1930-739X
- PMC
- PMC4314688
- OpenAlex
- W2124094824
- Cited by
- 49
- References
- 40
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 3.24
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Obesity (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Uppsala University Publications (Uppsala University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- Novo Nordisk Foundation
- Swedish brain foundation
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Sleep and Wakefulness Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Sleep and related disorders
- Keywords
- total sleep deprivation, impulsivity, food cues, cognitive control, go/no-go task, response inhibition, hunger, fasting blood glucose, sleep disorders, young men
- MeSH terms
- Attention, Blood Glucose, Cues, Food, Humans, Hunger, Impulsive Behavior, Inhibition, Psychological, Male, Obesity, Reaction Time, Sleep, Sleep Deprivation, Cross-Over Studies, Young Adult
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