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Closed-Loop tACS Delivered during Slow-Wave Sleep Reduces Retroactive Interference on a Paired-Associates Learning Task. Brain Sci 2023; 13:brainsci13030468. [PMID: 36979277 PMCID: PMC10046133 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci13030468] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2023] [Revised: 03/03/2023] [Accepted: 03/06/2023] [Indexed: 03/12/2023] Open
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Previous studies have found a benefit of closed-loop transcranial alternating current stimulation (CL-tACS) matched to ongoing slow-wave oscillations (SWO) during sleep on memory consolidation for words in a paired associates task (PAT). Here, we examined the effects of CL-tACS in a retroactive interference PAT (ri-PAT) paradigm, where additional stimuli were presented to increase interference and reduce memory performance. Thirty-one participants were tested on a PAT before sleep, and CL-tACS was applied over the right and left DLPFC (F3 and F4) vs. mastoids for five cycles after detection of the onset of each discrete event of SWO during sleep. Participants were awoken the following morning, learned a new PAT list, and then were tested on the original list. There was a significant effect of stimulation condition (p = 0.04297; Cohen’s d = 0.768), where verum stimulation resulted in reduced retroactive interference compared with sham and a significant interaction of encoding strength and stimulation condition (p = 0.03591). Planned simple effects testing within levels of encoding revealed a significant effect of stimulation only for low-encoders (p = 0.0066; Cohen’s d = 1.075) but not high-encoders. We demonstrate here for the first time that CL-tACS during sleep can enhance the protective benefits on retroactive interference in participants who have lower encoding aptitude.
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Strauss M, Griffon L, Van Beers P, Elbaz M, Bouziotis J, Sauvet F, Chennaoui M, Léger D, Peigneux P. Order matters: sleep spindles contribute to memory consolidation only when followed by rapid-eye-movement sleep. Sleep 2022; 45:6509075. [PMID: 35037060 DOI: 10.1093/sleep/zsac022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2021] [Revised: 01/12/2022] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Sleep is known to benefit memory consolidation, but little is known about the contribution of sleep stages within the sleep cycle. The sequential hypothesis proposes that memories are first replayed during nonrapid-eye-movement (NREM or N) sleep and then integrated into existing networks during rapid-eye-movement (REM or R) sleep, two successive critical steps for memory consolidation. However, it lacks experimental evidence as N always precedes R sleep in physiological conditions. We tested this sequential hypothesis in patients with central hypersomnolence disorder, including patients with narcolepsy who present the unique, anti-physiological peculiarity of frequently falling asleep in R sleep before entering N sleep. Patients performed a visual perceptual learning task before and after daytime naps stopped after one sleep cycle, starting in N or R sleep and followed by the other stage (i.e. N-R vs. R-N sleep sequence). We compared over-nap changes in performance, reflecting memory consolidation, depending on the sleep sequence during the nap. Thirty-six patients who slept for a total of 67 naps were included in the analysis. Results show that sleep spindles are associated with memory consolidation only when N is followed by R sleep, that is in physiologically ordered N-R naps, thus providing support to the sequential hypothesis in humans. In addition, we found a negative effect of rapid-eye-movements in R sleep on perceptual consolidation, highlighting the complex role of sleep stages in the balance to remember and to forget.
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- Mélanie Strauss
- Université de Paris, APHP, Hôtel-Dieu de Paris, Centre du Sommeil et de la Vigilance, EA 7330 VIFASOM Sommeil-Vigilance-Fatigue et Santé Publique, Paris, France.,Neuropsychology and Functional Imaging Research Group (UR2NF) at Center for Research in Cognition and Neurosciences (CRCN) and ULB Neuroscience Institute (UNI), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.,Cliniques Universitaires de Bruxelles, Hôpital Erasme, Services de Neurologie, Psychiatrie et laboratoire du sommeil, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
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- Université de Paris, APHP, Hôtel-Dieu de Paris, Centre du Sommeil et de la Vigilance, EA 7330 VIFASOM Sommeil-Vigilance-Fatigue et Santé Publique, Paris, France
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- Université de Paris, APHP, Hôtel-Dieu de Paris, Centre du Sommeil et de la Vigilance, EA 7330 VIFASOM Sommeil-Vigilance-Fatigue et Santé Publique, Paris, France.,Unité Fatigue et vigilance, Institut de recherche biomédicale des armées, Brétigny sur Orge, France
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- Université de Paris, APHP, Hôtel-Dieu de Paris, Centre du Sommeil et de la Vigilance, EA 7330 VIFASOM Sommeil-Vigilance-Fatigue et Santé Publique, Paris, France
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- Cliniques Universitaires de Bruxelles, Hôpital Erasme, Service de la Recherche Biomédicale, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
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- Université de Paris, APHP, Hôtel-Dieu de Paris, Centre du Sommeil et de la Vigilance, EA 7330 VIFASOM Sommeil-Vigilance-Fatigue et Santé Publique, Paris, France.,Unité Fatigue et vigilance, Institut de recherche biomédicale des armées, Brétigny sur Orge, France
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- Université de Paris, APHP, Hôtel-Dieu de Paris, Centre du Sommeil et de la Vigilance, EA 7330 VIFASOM Sommeil-Vigilance-Fatigue et Santé Publique, Paris, France.,Unité Fatigue et vigilance, Institut de recherche biomédicale des armées, Brétigny sur Orge, France
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- Université de Paris, APHP, Hôtel-Dieu de Paris, Centre du Sommeil et de la Vigilance, EA 7330 VIFASOM Sommeil-Vigilance-Fatigue et Santé Publique, Paris, France
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- Neuropsychology and Functional Imaging Research Group (UR2NF) at Center for Research in Cognition and Neurosciences (CRCN) and ULB Neuroscience Institute (UNI), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
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Cordi MJ, Rasch B. No evidence for intra-individual correlations between sleep-mediated declarative memory consolidation and slow-wave sleep. Sleep 2021; 44:zsab034. [PMID: 33590257 PMCID: PMC8361329 DOI: 10.1093/sleep/zsab034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2020] [Revised: 01/12/2021] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
Abstract
STUDY OBJECTIVES Memory consolidation benefits from a retention period filled with sleep. Several theoretical accounts assume that slow-wave sleep (SWS) contributes functionally to processes underlying the stabilization of declarative memories during sleep. However, reports on correlations between memory retention and the amount of SWS are mixed and typically rely on between-subject correlations and small sample sizes. Here we tested for the first time whether the amount of SWS during sleep predicts the effect of sleep on memory consolidation on an intra-individual level in a large sample. METHODS One hundred and fifty-nine healthy participants came to the lab twice and took a 90 min nap in both sessions. Sleep-mediated memory benefits were tested using the paired associates word-learning task in both sessions. RESULTS In contrast to the theoretical prediction, intra-individual differences in sleep-mediated memory benefits did not significantly correlate with differences in SWS or SWA between the two naps. Also between subjects, the amount of SWS did not correlate with memory retention across the nap. However, subjective ratings of sleep quality were significantly associated with the amount of SWS. CONCLUSION Our results question the notion that the amount of SWS per se is functionally related to processes of memory consolidation during sleep. While our results do not exclude an important role of SWS for memory, they suggest that "more SWS" does not necessarily imply better memory consolidation.
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- Maren Jasmin Cordi
- Department of Psychology, Division of Cognitive Biopsychology and Methods, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychology, Division of Cognitive Biopsychology and Methods, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
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Pöhlchen D, Pawlizki A, Gais S, Schönauer M. Evidence against a large effect of sleep in protecting verbal memories from interference. J Sleep Res 2020; 30:e13042. [PMID: 32311167 DOI: 10.1111/jsr.13042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2019] [Revised: 02/08/2020] [Accepted: 03/17/2020] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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The human brain has evolved to acquire novel information rapidly while serving the need to store long-term memories in a stable and lasting form. Presenting interfering information directly after learning can lead to forgetting of the original material. It has been suggested that sleep aids the stabilization of new memories and protects them from interference. Here, we aim to replicate in two separate experiments the claim that sleep protects memories from retroactive interference (Current Biology, 16, 2006 and 1290; PLoS ONE, 4, 2009 and e4117). We let participants study wordlists before letting them sleep for an afternoon nap or for a full night. In a control condition, subjects stayed awake for the same amount of time. After the consolidation interval, participants learnt an interfering wordlist and were tested on memory of the original wordlist. Sleep did not stabilize memory for the original wordlist in either study. We discuss our findings in the light of recent advances in computational neuroscience, and conclude that the stabilizing effect of sleep against interference has been overestimated.
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- Dorothee Pöhlchen
- Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, Tubingen, Germany.,International Max Planck Research School - Translational Psychiatry (IMPRS-TP), Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, Tubingen, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, Tubingen, Germany.,Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.,Institute of Neuropsychology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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Bailes C, Caldwell M, Wamsley EJ, Tucker MA. Does sleep protect memories against interference? A failure to replicate. PLoS One 2020; 15:e0220419. [PMID: 32053586 PMCID: PMC7018054 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0220419] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2019] [Accepted: 01/22/2020] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Across a broad spectrum of memory tasks, retention is superior following a night of sleep compared to a day of wake. However, this result alone does not clarify whether sleep merely slows the forgetting that would otherwise occur as a result of information processing during wakefulness, or whether sleep actually consolidates memories, protecting them from subsequent retroactive interference. Two influential studies suggested that sleep protects memories against the subsequent retroactive interference that occurs when participants learn new yet overlapping information (interference learning). In these studies, interference learning was much less detrimental to memory following a night of sleep compared to a day of wakefulness, an indication that sleep supports this important aspect of memory consolidation. In the current replication study, we repeated the protocol of and, additionally, we examined the impact of intrinsic motivation on performance in sleep and wake participants. We were unable to replicate the finding that sleep protects memories against retroactive interference, with the detrimental effects of interference learning being essentially the same in wake and sleep participants. We also found that while intrinsic motivation benefitted task acquisition it was not a modulator of sleep-wake differences in memory processing. Although we cannot accept the null hypothesis that sleep has no role to play in reducing the negative impact of interference, the findings draw into question prior evidence for sleep’s role in protecting memories against interference. Moreover, the current study highlights the importance of replicating key findings in the study of sleep’s impact on memory processing before drawing strong conclusions that set the direction of future research.
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- Carrie Bailes
- University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville, Greenville, South Carolina
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- University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville, Greenville, South Carolina
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- Department of Psychology and Program in Neuroscience, Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina
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- University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville, Greenville, South Carolina
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Ren L, Wang K, Shen H, Xu Y, Wang J, Chen R. Effects of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy on neurological and functional rehabilitation in Basal Ganglia Stroke patients with obstructive sleep apnea: A prospective multicenter study. Medicine (Baltimore) 2019; 98:e16344. [PMID: 31305423 PMCID: PMC6641828 DOI: 10.1097/md.0000000000016344] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) adversely affects neurological recovery. This study aimed to determine the impact of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) and/or rehabilitation in basal ganglia stroke patients with OSA.A prospective controlled trial was conducted in 2015-2018. The subjects received routine rehabilitation training for up to 2 years and were assigned to the intervention and control groups treated with CPAP or without, respectively. Then, treatment effects on sleep parameters, motor function, stroke severity, daily life activities, cognitive function, and psychological states were assessed at different time points.At 6 months, the CPAP group showed significantly lower mean apnea-hypopnea index (AHI), percentage of time with SpO2 at <90% (TS90%), micro-arousal index, and percentages of time in non-rapid eye movement (non-REM) stages 1-2 and REM stage in total sleeping time compared with the control group, and significantly higher mean minimum of peripheral oxygen saturation (L-SaO2%) and percentage of time in stage 3 (P < .001) sleep. The CPAP group showed significant improvements in average the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS), Fugl-Meyer assessment scale (FMA), Barthel index (BI), Minimental state examination (MMSE), Hamilton anxiety scale (HAMA) and Hamilton depression rating scale for depression (HRSD) scores at different times versus the control group, respectively (P < .05). However, no difference in body mass index (BMI) management was observed (P > .05). Repeated-measures ANOVA revealed significant interactions between the two groups for change in FMA, MMSE, BI, HAMA, and HRSD scores from admission to 24 months (P < .001), but no significant was found for BMI (P = .582).Basal ganglia stroke patients with OSA tend to have significantly greater sleeping, neurological and functional recovery after CPAP, and rehabilitation over 2 years.
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- Lei Ren
- Department of Respiratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Suzhou University, Suzhou, Jiangsu
- Department of Respiratory Rehabilitation, The Fourth Rehabilitation Hospital of Shanghai (Shanghai Jingan Geriatric Hospital)
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- Department of Neurological Rehabilitation, The Fourth Rehabilitation Hospital of Shanghai (Shanghai Jingan Geriatric Hospital), Shanghai, China
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- Department of Respiratory Rehabilitation, The Fourth Rehabilitation Hospital of Shanghai (Shanghai Jingan Geriatric Hospital)
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- Department of Respiratory Rehabilitation, The Fourth Rehabilitation Hospital of Shanghai (Shanghai Jingan Geriatric Hospital)
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Suzhou University, Suzhou, Jiangsu
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Suzhou University, Suzhou, Jiangsu
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Effects of early morning nap sleep on associative memory for neutral and emotional stimuli. Brain Res 2018; 1698:29-42. [PMID: 29928870 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2018.06.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2018] [Revised: 05/19/2018] [Accepted: 06/16/2018] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Emotional events are preferentially retained in episodic memory. This effect is commonly attributed to enhanced consolidation and has been linked specifically to rapid eye movement (REM) sleep physiology. While several studies have demonstrated an enhancing effect of REM sleep on emotional item memory, it has not been thoroughly explored whether this effect extends to the retention of associative memory. Moreover, it is unclear how non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep contributes to these effects. The present study thus examined associative recognition of emotional and non-emotional material across an early morning nap (N = 23) and sustained wakefulness (N = 23). Nap group subjects demonstrated enhanced post-sleep associative memory performance, which was evident across both valence categories. Subsequent analyses revealed significant correlations between NREM spindle density and pre-sleep memory performance. Moreover, NREM spindle density was positively correlated with post-sleep neutral associative memory performance but not with post-sleep emotional associative memory. Accordingly, only neutral associative memory, but not emotional associative memory, was significantly correlated with spindle density after an additional night of sleep (+24 h). These results illustrate a temporally persistent relationship between spindle density and memory for neutral associations, whereas post-sleep emotional associative memory appears to be disengaged from NREM-sleep-dependent processes.
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Schönauer M, Brodt S, Pöhlchen D, Breßmer A, Danek AH, Gais S. Sleep Does Not Promote Solving Classical Insight Problems and Magic Tricks. Front Hum Neurosci 2018; 12:72. [PMID: 29535620 PMCID: PMC5834438 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2018.00072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2017] [Accepted: 02/09/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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During creative problem solving, initial solution attempts often fail because of self-imposed constraints that prevent us from thinking out of the box. In order to solve a problem successfully, the problem representation has to be restructured by combining elements of available knowledge in novel and creative ways. It has been suggested that sleep supports the reorganization of memory representations, ultimately aiding problem solving. In this study, we systematically tested the effect of sleep and time on problem solving, using classical insight tasks and magic tricks. Solving these tasks explicitly requires a restructuring of the problem representation and may be accompanied by a subjective feeling of insight. In two sessions, 77 participants had to solve classical insight problems and magic tricks. The two sessions either occurred consecutively or were spaced 3 h apart, with the time in between spent either sleeping or awake. We found that sleep affected neither general solution rates nor the number of solutions accompanied by sudden subjective insight. Our study thus adds to accumulating evidence that sleep does not provide an environment that facilitates the qualitative restructuring of memory representations and enables problem solving.
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- Monika Schönauer
- Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- Department of Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- Division of Neurobiology, Department Biology II, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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OBJECTIVES Sleep quality affects memory and executive function in older adults, but little is known about its effects in midlife. If it affects cognition in midlife, it may be a modifiable factor for later-life functioning. METHODS We examined the association between sleep quality and cognition in 1220 middle-aged male twins (age 51-60 years) from the Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging. We interviewed participants with the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index and tested them for episodic memory as well as executive functions of inhibitory and interference control, updating in working memory, and set shifting. Interference control was assessed during episodic memory, inhibitory control during working memory, and non-memory conditions and set shifting during working memory and non-memory conditions. RESULTS After adjusting for covariates and correcting for multiple comparisons, sleep quality was positively associated with updating in working memory, set shifting in the context of working memory, and better visual-spatial (but not verbal) episodic memory, and at trend level, with interference control in the context of episodic memory. CONCLUSIONS Sleep quality was associated with visual-spatial recall and possible resistance to proactive/retroactive interference. It was also associated with updating in working memory and with set shifting, but only when working memory demands were relatively high. Thus, effects of sleep quality on midlife cognition appear to be at the intersection of executive function and memory processes. Subtle deficits in these age-susceptible cognitive functions may indicate increased risk for decline in cognitive abilities later in life that might be reduced by improved midlife sleep quality. (JINS, 2018, 24, 67-76).
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Zhang Y, Wang W, Cai S, Sheng Q, Pan S, Shen F, Tang Q, Liu Y. Obstructive sleep apnea exaggerates cognitive dysfunction in stroke patients. Sleep Med 2017; 33:183-190. [PMID: 28291701 DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2016.11.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2016] [Revised: 11/20/2016] [Accepted: 11/28/2016] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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BACKGROUND Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is very common in stroke survivors. It potentially worsens the cognitive dysfunction and inhibits their functional recovery. However, whether OSA independently damages the cognitive function in stroke patients is unclear. A simple method for evaluating OSA-induced cognitive impairment is also missing. METHODS Forty-four stroke patients six weeks after onset and 24 non-stroke patients with snoring were recruited for the polysomnographic study of OSA and sleep architecture. Their cognitive status was evaluated with a validated Chinese version of Cambridge Prospective Memory Test. The relationship between memory deficits and respiratory, sleeping, and dementia-related clinical variables were analyzed with correlation and multiple linear regression tests. RESULTS OSA significantly and independently damaged time- and event-based prospective memory in stroke patients, although it had less power than the stroke itself. The impairment of prospective memory was correlated with increased apnea-hypopnea index, decreased minimal and mean levels of peripheral oxygen saturation, and disrupted sleeping continuity (reduced sleep efficiency and increased microarousal index). The further regression analysis identified minimal levels of peripheral oxygen saturation and sleep efficiency to be the two most important predictors for the decreased time-based prospective memory in stroke patients. CONCLUSIONS OSA independently contributes to the cognitive dysfunction in stroke patients, potentially through OSA-caused hypoxemia and sleeping discontinuity. The prospective memory test is a simple but sensitive method to detect OSA-induced cognitive impairment in stroke patients. Proper therapies of OSA might improve the cognitive function and increase the life quality of stroke patients.
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- Yan Zhang
- Department of Neurology, The Kunshan Affiliated Hospital of Jiangsu University, 215300 Kunshan, China; Department of Neurology, The First People's Hospital of Kunshan, 215300 Kunshan, China.
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- Department of Neurology, The Kunshan Affiliated Hospital of Jiangsu University, 215300 Kunshan, China; Department of Neurology, The First People's Hospital of Kunshan, 215300 Kunshan, China
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, The Kunshan Affiliated Hospital of Jiangsu University, 215300 Kunshan, China
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, The Kunshan Affiliated Hospital of Jiangsu University, 215300 Kunshan, China
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- Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, The Kunshan Affiliated Hospital of Jiangsu University, 215300 Kunshan, China
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- Department of Neurology, The Kunshan Affiliated Hospital of Jiangsu University, 215300 Kunshan, China; Department of Neurology, The First People's Hospital of Kunshan, 215300 Kunshan, China
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- Department of Neurology, The Kunshan Affiliated Hospital of Jiangsu University, 215300 Kunshan, China; Department of Neurology, The First People's Hospital of Kunshan, 215300 Kunshan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Saarland University, 66421 Homburg, Germany
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Gilson M, Deliens G, Leproult R, Bodart A, Nonclercq A, Ercek R, Peigneux P. REM-Enriched Naps Are Associated with Memory Consolidation for Sad Stories and Enhance Mood-Related Reactivity. Brain Sci 2015; 6:brainsci6010001. [PMID: 26729175 PMCID: PMC4810171 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci6010001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2015] [Revised: 12/05/2015] [Accepted: 12/16/2015] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Emerging evidence suggests that emotion and affect modulate the relation between sleep and cognition. In the present study, we investigated the role of rapid-eye movement (REM) sleep in mood regulation and memory consolidation for sad stories. In a counterbalanced design, participants (n = 24) listened to either a neutral or a sad story during two sessions, spaced one week apart. After listening to the story, half of the participants had a short (45 min) morning nap. The other half had a long (90 min) morning nap, richer in REM and N2 sleep. Story recall, mood evolution and changes in emotional response to the re-exposure to the story were assessed after the nap. Although recall performance was similar for sad and neutral stories irrespective of nap duration, sleep measures were correlated with recall performance in the sad story condition only. After the long nap, REM sleep density positively correlated with retrieval performance, while re-exposure to the sad story led to diminished mood and increased skin conductance levels. Our results suggest that REM sleep may not only be associated with the consolidation of intrinsically sad material, but also enhances mood reactivity, at least on the short term.
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- Médhi Gilson
- UR2NF-Neuropsychology and Functional Neuroimaging Research Unit, avenue F.D. Roosevelt 50, Bruxelles 1050, Belgium.
- UNI-ULB Neuroscience Institute, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), avenue F.D. Roosevelt 50, Bruxelles, Belgium.
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- UR2NF-Neuropsychology and Functional Neuroimaging Research Unit, avenue F.D. Roosevelt 50, Bruxelles 1050, Belgium.
- UNI-ULB Neuroscience Institute, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), avenue F.D. Roosevelt 50, Bruxelles, Belgium.
- CO3-Consciousness, Cognition & Computation Group, avenue F.D. Roosevelt 50, Bruxelles 1050, Belgium.
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- UR2NF-Neuropsychology and Functional Neuroimaging Research Unit, avenue F.D. Roosevelt 50, Bruxelles 1050, Belgium.
- UNI-ULB Neuroscience Institute, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), avenue F.D. Roosevelt 50, Bruxelles, Belgium.
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- UR2NF-Neuropsychology and Functional Neuroimaging Research Unit, avenue F.D. Roosevelt 50, Bruxelles 1050, Belgium.
- UNI-ULB Neuroscience Institute, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), avenue F.D. Roosevelt 50, Bruxelles, Belgium.
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- LISA-Laboratories of Image, Signal processing and Acoustics, avenue F.D. Roosevelt 50, Bruxelles 1050, Belgium.
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- LISA-Laboratories of Image, Signal processing and Acoustics, avenue F.D. Roosevelt 50, Bruxelles 1050, Belgium.
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- UR2NF-Neuropsychology and Functional Neuroimaging Research Unit, avenue F.D. Roosevelt 50, Bruxelles 1050, Belgium.
- UNI-ULB Neuroscience Institute, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), avenue F.D. Roosevelt 50, Bruxelles, Belgium.
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Barsky MM, Tucker MA, Stickgold R. REM sleep enhancement of probabilistic classification learning is sensitive to subsequent interference. Neurobiol Learn Mem 2015; 122:63-8. [PMID: 25769506 PMCID: PMC4456240 DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2015.02.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2014] [Revised: 02/20/2015] [Accepted: 02/24/2015] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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During wakefulness the brain creates meaningful relationships between disparate stimuli in ways that escape conscious awareness. Processes active during sleep can strengthen these relationships, leading to more adaptive use of those stimuli when encountered during subsequent wake. Performance on the Weather Prediction Task (WPT), a well-studied measure of implicit probabilistic learning, has been shown to improve significantly following a night of sleep, with stronger initial learning predicting more nocturnal REM sleep. We investigated this relationship further, studying the effect on WPT performance of a daytime nap containing REM sleep. We also added an interference condition after the nap/wake period as an additional probe of memory strength. Our results show that a nap significantly boosts WPT performance, and that this improvement is correlated with the amount of REM sleep obtained during the nap. When interference training is introduced following the nap, however, this REM-sleep benefit vanishes. In contrast, following an equal period of wake, performance is both unchanged from training and unaffected by interference training. Thus, while the true probabilistic relationships between WPT stimuli are strengthened by sleep, these changes are selectively susceptible to the destructive effects of retroactive interference, at least in the short term.
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- Murray M Barsky
- Center for Sleep and Cognition, Dept. of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Ave/FD 861, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
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- Center for Sleep and Cognition, Dept. of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Ave/FD 861, Boston, MA 02215, USA; Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of South Carolina, School of Medicine, Greenville, Health Sciences Administration Building - Rm 248, 701 Grove Road, Greenville, SC 29605, USA
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- Center for Sleep and Cognition, Dept. of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Ave/FD 861, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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Huijgen J, Samson S. The hippocampus: A central node in a large-scale brain network for memory. Rev Neurol (Paris) 2015; 171:204-16. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neurol.2015.01.557] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2014] [Revised: 01/22/2015] [Accepted: 01/29/2015] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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REM sleep and memory reorganization: Potential relevance for psychiatry and psychotherapy. Neurobiol Learn Mem 2015; 122:28-40. [PMID: 25602929 DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2015.01.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2014] [Revised: 12/28/2014] [Accepted: 01/05/2015] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Sleep can foster the reorganization of memory, i.e. the emergence of new memory content that has not directly been encoded. Current neurophysiological and behavioral evidence can be integrated into a model positing that REM sleep particularly promotes the disintegration of existing schemas and their recombination in the form of associative thinking, creativity and the shaping of emotional memory. Particularly, REM sleep related dreaming might represent a mentation correlate for the reconfiguration of memory. In a final section, the potential relevance for psychiatry and psychotherapy is discussed.
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Memory Reactivation in Humans (Imaging Studies). SPRINGER SERIES IN COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE 2015. [DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-1969-7_11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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McDevitt EA, Duggan KA, Mednick SC. REM sleep rescues learning from interference. Neurobiol Learn Mem 2014; 122:51-62. [PMID: 25498222 DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2014.11.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2014] [Revised: 10/24/2014] [Accepted: 11/28/2014] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Classical human memory studies investigating the acquisition of temporally-linked events have found that the memories for two events will interfere with each other and cause forgetting (i.e., interference; Wixted, 2004). Importantly, sleep helps consolidate memories and protect them from subsequent interference (Ellenbogen, Hulbert, Stickgold, Dinges, & Thompson-Schill, 2006). We asked whether sleep can also repair memories that have already been damaged by interference. Using a perceptual learning paradigm, we induced interference either before or after a consolidation period. We varied brain states during consolidation by comparing active wake, quiet wake, and naps with either non-rapid eye movement sleep (NREM), or both NREM and REM sleep. When interference occurred after consolidation, sleep and wake both produced learning. However, interference prior to consolidation impaired memory, with retroactive interference showing more disruption than proactive interference. Sleep rescued learning damaged by interference. Critically, only naps that contained REM sleep were able to rescue learning that was highly disrupted by retroactive interference. Furthermore, the magnitude of rescued learning was correlated with the amount of REM sleep. We demonstrate the first evidence of a process by which the brain can rescue and consolidate memories damaged by interference, and that this process requires REM sleep. We explain these results within a theoretical model that considers how interference during encoding interacts with consolidation processes to predict which memories are retained or lost.
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- Elizabeth A McDevitt
- Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside, 900 University Avenue, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside, 900 University Avenue, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside, 900 University Avenue, Riverside, CA 92521, USA.
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Ruch S, Koenig T, Mathis J, Roth C, Henke K. Word encoding during sleep is suggested by correlations between word-evoked up-states and post-sleep semantic priming. Front Psychol 2014; 5:1319. [PMID: 25452740 PMCID: PMC4231834 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01319] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2014] [Accepted: 10/30/2014] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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To test whether humans can encode words during sleep we played everyday words to men while they were napping and assessed priming from sleep-played words following waking. Words were presented during non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep. Priming was assessed using a semantic and a perceptual priming test. These tests measured differences in the processing of words that had been or had not been played during sleep. Synonyms to sleep-played words were the targets in the semantic priming test that tapped the meaning of sleep-played words. All men responded to sleep-played words by producing up-states in their electroencephalogram. Up-states are NREM sleep-specific phases of briefly increased neuronal excitability. The word-evoked up-states might have promoted word processing during sleep. Yet, the mean performance in the priming tests administered following sleep was at chance level, which suggests that participants as a group failed to show priming following sleep. However, performance in the two priming tests was positively correlated to each other and to the magnitude of the word-evoked up-states. Hence, the larger a participant's word-evoked up-states, the larger his perceptual and semantic priming. Those participants who scored high on all variables must have encoded words during sleep. We conclude that some humans are able to encode words during sleep, but more research is needed to pin down the factors that modulate this ability.
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- Simon Ruch
- Department of Psychology, University of BernBern, Switzerland
- Center for Cognition, Learning and Memory, University of BernBern, Switzerland
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- Center for Cognition, Learning and Memory, University of BernBern, Switzerland
- Department of Psychiatric Neurophysiology, University Hospital of Psychiatry, University of BernBern, Switzerland
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- Department of Neurology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of BernBern, Switzerland
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- Department of Neurology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of BernBern, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychology, University of BernBern, Switzerland
- Center for Cognition, Learning and Memory, University of BernBern, Switzerland
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Sleep benefits memory consolidation. Previous theoretical accounts have proposed a differential role of slow-wave sleep (SWS), rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep, and stage N2 sleep for different types of memories. For example the dual process hypothesis proposes that SWS is beneficial for declarative memories, whereas REM sleep is important for consolidation of non-declarative, procedural and emotional memories. In fact, numerous recent studies do provide further support for the crucial role of SWS (or non-REM sleep) in declarative memory consolidation. However, recent evidence for the benefit of REM sleep for non-declarative memories is rather scarce. In contrast, several recent studies have related consolidation of procedural memories (and some also emotional memories) to SWS (or non-REM sleep)-dependent consolidation processes. We will review this recent evidence, and propose future research questions to advance our understanding of the role of different sleep stages for memory consolidation.
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Urbain C, Houyoux E, Albouy G, Peigneux P. Consolidation through the looking-glass: sleep-dependent proactive interference on visuomotor adaptation in children. J Sleep Res 2013; 23:44-52. [PMID: 24010959 DOI: 10.1111/jsr.12082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2013] [Accepted: 07/15/2013] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Although a beneficial role of post-training sleep for declarative memory has been consistently evidenced in children, as in adults, available data suggest that procedural memory consolidation does not benefit from sleep in children. However, besides the absence of performance gains in children, sleep-dependent plasticity processes involved in procedural memory consolidation might be expressed through differential interference effects on the learning of novel but related procedural material. To test this hypothesis, 32 10-12-year-old children were trained on a motor rotation adaptation task. After either a sleep or a wake period, they were first retested on the same rotation applied at learning, thus assessing offline sleep-dependent changes in performance, then on the opposite (unlearned) rotation to assess sleep-dependent modulations in proactive interference coming from the consolidated visuomotor memory trace. Results show that children gradually improve performance over the learning session, showing effective adaptation to the imposed rotation. In line with previous findings, no sleep-dependent changes in performance were observed for the learned rotation. However, presentation of the opposite, unlearned deviation elicited significantly higher interference effects after post-training sleep than wakefulness in children. Considering that a definite feature of procedural motor memory and skill acquisition is the implementation of highly automatized motor behaviour, thus lacking flexibility, our results suggest a better integration and/or automation or motor adaptation skills after post-training sleep, eventually resulting in higher proactive interference effects on untrained material.
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- Charline Urbain
- UR2NF, Neuropsychology and Functional Neuroimaging Research Group at CRCN, Center for Research in Cognition and Neurosciences and UNI, ULB Neurosciences Institute, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium; Laboratoire de Cartographie Fonctionnelle du Cerveau (LCFC), Erasme Hospital, ULB, Brussels, Belgium
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