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The Journal of Neuroscience, May 12, 2004, 24(19):4560-4567; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0007-04.2004

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Functional Imaging of Working Memory after 24 Hr of Total Sleep Deprivation

Michael W. L. Chee and Wei Chieh Choo

Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, SingHealth Research Laboratories, Singapore 169611, Singapore

The neurobehavioral effects of 24 hr of total sleep deprivation (SD) on working memory in young healthy adults was studied using functional magnetic resonance imaging. Two tasks, one testing maintenance and the other manipulation and maintenance, were used. After SD, response times for both tasks were significantly slower. Performance was better preserved in the more complex task. Both tasks activated a bilateral, left hemisphere-dominant frontal-parietal network of brain regions reflecting the engagement of verbal working memory. In both states, manipulation elicited more extensive and bilateral (L>R) frontal, parietal, and thalamic activation. After SD, there was reduced blood oxygenation level-dependent signal response in the medial parietal region with both tasks. Reduced deactivation of the anterior medial frontal and posterior cingulate regions was observed with both tasks. Finally, there was disproportionately greater activation of the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and bilateral thalamus when manipulation was required. This pattern of changes in activation and deactivation bears similarity to that observed when healthy elderly adults perform similar tasks. Our data suggest that reduced activation and reduced deactivation could underlie cognitive impairment after SD and that increased prefrontal and thalamic activation may represent compensatory adaptations. The additional left frontal activation elicited after SD is postulated to be task dependent and contingent on task complexity. Our findings provide neural correlates to explain why task performance in relatively more complex tasks is better preserved relative to simpler ones after SD.

Key words: working memory; prefrontal cortex; cortical deactivation; sleep deprivation; functional imaging; BOLD fMRI

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Received Jan 2, 2004; revised March 29, 2004; accepted March 31, 2004.

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