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The Stockholm Sleepy Brain Study: Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Cognitive and Emotional Processing in Young and Old

NCT02000076 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 98

Last updated 2016-05-16

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The main purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of partial sleep deprivation (PSD) on resting state brain connectivity, emotional contagion, empathy, and emotional regulation.

Conditions

  • Sleep Deprivation

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Partial sleep deprivation allowing 3 h sleep at night

Participants sleep at home while monitored with ambulatory polysomnography. For the full sleep condition, they are instructed to go to bed and to get up at the usual times that they would normally do that. For the sleep deprivation condition, they are instructed to go to bed 3 hours before the time when they would usually get up, and then to get up at that time.

BEHAVIORAL

Full sleep

Participants sleep at home while monitored with ambulatory polysomnography. For the full sleep condition, they are instructed to go to bed and to get up at the usual times that they would normally do that. For the sleep deprivation condition, they are instructed to go to bed 3 hours before the time when they would usually get up, and then to get up at that time.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Stockholm University

    collaborator OTHER

  • Mats Lekander

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Torbjörn Åkerstedt, PhD · Stockholm University

  • Mats Lekander, PhD · Stockholm University, Karolinska Institutet

  • Håkan Fischer, PhD · Stockholm University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Max Age
75 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-11-30
Primary Completion
2014-03-31
Completion
2014-05-31

Countries

  • Sweden

Study Locations

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