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Sleep, Circadian Rhythms, and Psychomotor Vigilance

Van Dongen, Hans P.A., Dinges, David F.·2005·Clinics in Sports Medicine

Abstract

Psychomotor vigilance performance is highly relevant to athletic performance. It is influenced by a sleep homeostatic process, which builds up pressure for sleep during wakefulness and dissipates this pressure during sleep, and a circadian rhythm process, which produces a waxing and waning of pressure for wakefulness over a 24 hours of the day. During total sleep deprivation, these two processes cause performance to deteriorate progressively over days, modulated within days by further performance reductions at night and relative improvements during the daytime. As the homeostatic pressure for sleep builds up higher across prolonged wakefulness, the rate of dissipation of that pressure during subsequent sleep is enhanced exponentially, so that even brief periods of sleep provide significant performance recuperation. Nevertheless, sleep restriction practiced on a chronic basis induces cumulative performance deficits of the same order of magnitude as observed during total sleep deprivation. There are also considerable individual differences in the degree of vulnerability to performance impairment from sleep loss, and these differences represent a trait.

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Authors
Van Dongen, H. P. A., & Dinges, D. F.
Affiliations
University of Pennsylvania (US)
Venue
Clinics in Sports Medicine
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2005-04
Volume
24
Issue
2
Pages
237-249
ISSN
0278-5919 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2009510398
Cited by
316
References
45
Citations by year
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FWCI
1.35
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Clinics in Sports Medicine (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (HL70154, R01HL070154)
  • National Institute of Nursing Research (NR04281, R01NR004281)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Endocrine and Autonomic Systems › Circadian rhythm and melatonin
Keywords
sleep, circadian rhythm, psychomotor vigilance, sleep deprivation, sleep homeostasis, sleep-wake regulation, cognitive performance, suprachiasmatic nucleus
MeSH terms
Adult, Arousal, Circadian Rhythm, Female, Homeostasis, Humans, Individuality, Male, Psychomotor Performance, Sleep, Sleep Deprivation

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