The Journal of Neuroscience, July 5, 2006, 26(27):7156-7162; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0906-06.2006
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The Neural Basis of Interindividual Variability in Inhibitory Efficiency after Sleep Deprivation
Y. M. Lisa Chuah,1
Vinod Venkatraman,1
David F. Dinges,2 and
Michael W. L. Chee1
1Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Singapore Health Services, Singapore, 169611, and 2Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6021
Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Michael W. L. Chee, Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Singapore Health Services, 7 Hospital Drive, #01-11, Block B, SingHealth Research Facilities, Singapore, 169611. Email: mchee{at}pacific.net.sg
Sleep deprivation results in the loss of our ability to suppress a prepotent response. The extent of decline in this executive function varies across individuals. Here, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging to study the neural correlates of sleep deprivation-induced differences in inhibitory efficiency. Participants performed a go/no-go task after normal sleep and after 24 h of total sleep deprivation. Regardless of the extent of change in inhibitory efficiency, sleep deprivation lowered go/no-go sustained, task-related activation of the ventral and anterior prefrontal (PFC) regions bilaterally. However, individuals better able to maintain inhibitory efficiency after sleep deprivation could be distinguished by lower stop-related, phasic activation of the right ventral PFC during rested wakefulness. These persons also showed a larger rise in such activation both here and in the right insula after sleep deprivation relative to those whose inhibitory efficiency declined.
Key words: go/no-go; inhibition; error monitoring; compensation; functional neuroimaging; prefrontal cortex
Received March 1, 2006;
revised May 26, 2006;
accepted May 26, 2006.
Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Michael W. L. Chee, Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Singapore Health Services, 7 Hospital Drive, #01-11, Block B, SingHealth Research Facilities, Singapore, 169611. Email: mchee{at}pacific.net.sg
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