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Weekend–weekday advances in sleep timing are associated with altered reward-related brain function in healthy adolescents

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Hasler, Brant P., Dahl, Ronald E., Holm, Stephanie M., Jakubcak, Jennifer L., Ryan, Neal D., Silk, Jennifer S., Phillips, Mary L., Forbes, Erika E.·2012·Biological Psychology

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Sleep timing shifts later during adolescence, thus conflicting with early school start times. This can lead to irregular weekday-weekend schedules and circadian misalignment, which have been linked to depression and substance abuse, consistent with disruptions in the processing of rewards. We tested associations between weekend-weekday shifts in sleep timing and the neural response to monetary reward in healthy adolescents, using actigraphy and a functional magnetic resonance imaging paradigm. Region-of-interest analyses focused on the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) and striatum, both of which are implicated in reward function. Analyses adjusted for pubertal stage, sex, and total sleep time. Greater weekend-weekday advances in midsleep were associated with decreased mPFC and striatal reactivity to reward, which could reflect reduced regulatory response and reward sensitivity. We speculate that circadian misalignment associated with weekend shifts in sleep timing may contribute to reward-related problems such as depression and substance abuse.

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  • Larger weekday-weekend advances of sleep onset are associated with lower medial prefrontal cortex reactivity to the anticipation and receipt of monetary reward in early adolescents (aged 11-13 years), even after adjusting for puberty, sex and total sleep time.

    “In fact, larger weekday–weekend advances of sleep onset (for example, similar to the transition from early school start times to weekend schedules) are associated with lower mPFC reactivity to the anticipation and receipt of monetary reward in early adolescents (aged 11–13 years), even after adjusting for puberty, sex and total sleep time149.”
  • Changes in sleep timing and chronotype are associated with altered reward-related brain function in adolescents.

    “These changes in sleep timing and chronotype are associated with altered reward-related brain function in adolescents (80–82).”
  • In early adolescence, larger weekday-weekend differences in sleep timing (social jet lag) are associated with lower medial prefrontal cortex reactivity to anticipation and receipt of monetary reward, even after adjusting for puberty, gender, and total sleep time.

    “In early adolescence, larger weekday-weekend differences in sleep timing (i.e., social jet lag) are associated with lower mPFC reactivity to anticipation and receipt of monetary reward, even after adjusting for puberty, gender, and total sleep time (82).”
  • Only a few developmental studies have examined how sleep influences reward-related brain function in adolescents, and none have examined how sleep impacts risk taking behavior, cognitive control, and related neural circuitry.

    “Although neuroimaging research in adults has shown that sleep deprivation impacts brain function related to reward processing, risk-taking, and cognition (Chee et al., 2011; Gujar et al., 2011; Libedinsky et al., 2011; Venkatraman et al., 2011), only a few developmental studies have examined how sleep influences reward-related brain function in adolescents (Hasler et al., 2012; Holm et al., 2009)”

    From The effects of poor quality sleep on brain function and risk taking in adolescence (2013) · cites this paper as Hasler et al., 2012

  • Poor sleep relates to impairments in cognitive regulation and increases in health compromising behaviors such as substance use.

    “Insufficient sleep and poor quality sleep are pervasive during adolescence (Carskadon, 2011; Dahl and Lewin, 2002) and relate to impairments in cognitive regulation and increases in health compromising behaviors such as substance use (Hasler et al., 2012; Kenney et al., 2012; McKnight-Eily et al., 2011; O'Brien and Mindell, 2005).”

    From The effects of poor quality sleep on brain function and risk taking in adolescence (2013) · cites this paper as Hasler et al., 2012

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Authors
Hasler, B. P., Dahl, R. E., Holm, S. M., Jakubcak, J. L., Ryan, N. D., Silk, J. S., Phillips, M. L., & Forbes, E. E.
Affiliations
  • University of Pittsburgh (US)
  • University of California, Berkeley (US)
Corresponding author
Hasler, Brant P.
Venue
Biological Psychology
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2012-12
Volume
91
Issue
3
Pages
334-341
ISSN
0301-0511 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2009694059
Cited by
145
References
44
Citations by year
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FWCI
11.59
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Biological Psychology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • National Institutes of Health
  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (T32HL082610)
  • National Institute of Mental Health (MH074769, K01MH074769)
  • National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01DA018910, K01DA032557, R01DA026222, DA026222, DA018910)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Sleep and related disorders
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Endocrine and Autonomic Systems › Circadian rhythm and melatonin
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Sleep and Wakefulness Research
Keywords
sleep timing, circadian misalignment, adolescent sleep, medial prefrontal cortex, striatum, reward sensitivity, depression, substance abuse, school start time, pubertal development
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Brain, Brain Mapping, Child, Female, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Reward, Sleep, Adolescent Development, Actigraphy

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