NCT02000076

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

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 98 (actual)
• Sponsor: Mats Lekander · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

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

Type	Name	Description
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.

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-11-01
• Primary completion: 2014-03-01
• Completion: 2014-05-01
• First posted: 2013-12-03
• Last updated: 2016-05-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Sweden