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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5926
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-4-24
pubmed:abstractText
Throughout the day, cognitive performance is under the combined influence of circadian processes and homeostatic sleep pressure. Some people perform best in the morning, whereas others are more alert in the evening. These chronotypes provide a unique way to study the effects of sleep-wake regulation on the cerebral mechanisms supporting cognition. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging in extreme chronotypes, we found that maintaining attention in the evening was associated with higher activity in evening than morning chronotypes in a region of the locus coeruleus and in a suprachiasmatic area (SCA) including the circadian master clock. Activity in the SCA decreased with increasing homeostatic sleep pressure. This result shows the direct influence of the homeostatic and circadian interaction on the neural activity underpinning human behavior.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
1095-9203
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
24
pubmed:volume
324
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
516-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-4-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
Homeostatic sleep pressure and responses to sustained attention in the suprachiasmatic area.
pubmed:affiliation
Cyclotron Research Centre, University of Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium. Christina.Schmidt@ulg.ac.be
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Clinical Trial, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't