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Sleep deprivation potentiates HPA axis stress reactivity in healthy adults.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: This article describes an experiment that was designed to investigate the effects of sleep deprivation on physiological stress responses in healthy adults. METHOD: Twenty-six participants, ages 22-49, completed a 3-night laboratory experiment with randomization to one night of sleep-deprivation or a normal-sleep control condition. After a night of baseline sleep, 12 participants were sleep deprived and 14 were not. After the sleep manipulation, each participant completed the Trier Social Stress Test, a task that requires delivering a speech and performing difficult arithmetic in front of a stern, three-person panel. The stressor was administered from 5:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m. and saliva samples were collected 20 and 5 min before (baseline) and 5, 20, and 40 min after the stressor. Samples were assayed for cortisol (a biomarker for the HPA axis) and alpha-amylase (a putative biomarker for the sympatho-adrenal medullar system). RESULTS: Sleep deprivation was associated with higher cortisol levels at baseline (p < .0001) and an amplified cortisol response to the stressor relative to control participants (pinteraction = 0.0039). Alpha-amylase showed a significant main effect of the stressor (p = .0026), but there was no effect of sleep loss at baseline or in response to the stressor. CONCLUSIONS: Sleep deprivation is associated with both elevated resting cortisol release and with an exaggerated cortisol response to a stressor indicative of elevated HPA axis responses in healthy adults. Individual differences in the magnitude of this response may represent a risk factor for psychological and physical health consequences associated with heightened cortisol exposure.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Minkel, J., Moreta, M., Muto, J., Htaik, O., Jones, C., Basner, M., & Dinges, D.
- Affiliations
- University of Pennsylvania (US)
- Venue
- Health Psychology
- Published
- 2014
- Volume
- 33
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 1430-1434
- ISSN
- 0278-6133 (ISSN-L)
- 1930-7810
- OpenAlex
- W2115078258
- Cited by
- 261
- References
- 23
- Citations by year
- 2026: 25 · 2025: 27 · 2024: 27 · 2023: 24 · 2022: 25 · 2021: 25 · 2020: 23 · 2019: 21 · 2018: 21 · 2017: 16 · 2016: 11 · 2015: 16
- FWCI
- 6.44
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Health Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- NASA (NCC 9-58)
- Sponsor name not included (F31 MH079604)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Behavioral Neuroscience › Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Sleep and Wakefulness Research
- Keywords
- sleep deprivation, hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, stress reactivity, cortisol, alpha-amylase, Trier Social Stress Test, physiological stress response, individual differences, healthy adults
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Female, Humans, Hydrocortisone, Hypothalamo-Hypophyseal System, Male, Middle Aged, Pituitary-Adrenal System, Saliva, Sleep Deprivation, Stress, Physiological, Young Adult
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