Effects of sleep deprivation on central auditory processing

BMC Neuroscience

Research Article

Mara L Cordeiro¹  Jair Mendes Marques²  Ari Leon Jurkiewicz²  Bianca Simone Zeigelboim²  Karlin Fabianne Klagenberg D’Andrea²  Paulo Breno Noronha Liberalesso³ 

[1] Department of Neuropsychopharmacology, Pelé Little Prince Research Institute, Curitiba, Brazil;Faculdades Little Prince, Curitiba, Brazil;Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences of the David Geffen School of Medicine, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California, Los Angeles, USA;University Tuiuti of Paraná, Otoneurology Research Center, Curitiba, Brazil;University Tuiuti of Paraná, Otoneurology Research Center, Curitiba, Brazil;Department of Neuropediatrics, Little Prince Children’s Hospital, Curitiba, Brazil;

关键词: Central auditory processing;    Sleep;    RGDT;    SSWT;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2202-13-83

 received in 2012-02-08, accepted in 2012-07-23,  发布年份 2012

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundSleep deprivation is extremely common in contemporary society, and is considered to be a frequent cause of behavioral disorders, mood, alertness, and cognitive performance. Although the impacts of sleep deprivation have been studied extensively in various experimental paradigms, very few studies have addressed the impact of sleep deprivation on central auditory processing (CAP). Therefore, we examined the impact of sleep deprivation on CAP, for which there is sparse information. In the present study, thirty healthy adult volunteers (17 females and 13 males, aged 30.75 ± 7.14 years) were subjected to a pure tone audiometry test, a speech recognition threshold test, a speech recognition task, the Staggered Spondaic Word Test (SSWT), and the Random Gap Detection Test (RGDT). Baseline (BSL) performance was compared to performance after 24 hours of being sleep deprived (24hSD) using the Student’s t test.ResultsMean RGDT score was elevated in the 24hSD condition (8.0 ± 2.9 ms) relative to the BSL condition for the whole cohort (6.4 ± 2.8 ms; p = 0.0005), for males (p = 0.0066), and for females (p = 0.0208). Sleep deprivation reduced SSWT scores for the whole cohort in both ears [(right: BSL, 98.4 % ± 1.8 % vs. SD, 94.2 % ± 6.3 %. p = 0.0005)(left: BSL, 96.7 % ± 3.1 % vs. SD, 92.1 % ± 6.1 %, p < 0.0001)]. These effects were evident within both gender subgroups [(right: males, p = 0.0080; females, p = 0.0143)(left: males, p = 0.0076; females: p = 0.0010).ConclusionSleep deprivation impairs RGDT and SSWT performance. These findings confirm that sleep deprivation has central effects that may impair performance in other areas of life.

【 授权许可】

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© Liberalesso et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2012. This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.