RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Lapsing during Sleep Deprivation Is Associated with Distributed Changes in Brain Activation JF The Journal of Neuroscience JO J. Neurosci. FD Society for Neuroscience SP 5519 OP 5528 DO 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0733-08.2008 VO 28 IS 21 A1 Michael W. L. Chee A1 Jiat Chow Tan A1 Hui Zheng A1 Sarayu Parimal A1 Daniel H. Weissman A1 Vitali Zagorodnov A1 David F. Dinges YR 2008 UL http://www.jneurosci.org/content/28/21/5519.abstract AB Lapses of attention manifest as delayed behavioral responses to salient stimuli. Although they can occur even after a normal night's sleep, they are longer in duration and more frequent after sleep deprivation (SD). To identify changes in task-associated brain activation associated with lapses during SD, we performed functional magnetic resonance imaging during a visual, selective attention task and analyzed the correct responses in a trial-by-trial manner modeling the effects of response time. Separately, we compared the fastest 10% and slowest 10% of correct responses in each state. Both analyses concurred in finding that SD-related lapses differ from lapses of equivalent duration after a normal night's sleep by (1) reduced ability of frontal and parietal control regions to raise activation in response to lapses, (2) dramatically reduced visual sensory cortex activation, and (3) reduced thalamic activation during lapses that contrasted with elevated thalamic activation during nonlapse periods. Despite these differences, the fastest responses after normal sleep and after SD elicited comparable frontoparietal activation, suggesting that performing a task while sleep deprived involves periods of apparently normal neural activation interleaved with periods of depressed cognitive control, visual perceptual functions, and arousal. These findings reveal for the first time some of the neural consequences of the interaction between efforts to maintain wakefulness and processes that initiate involuntary sleep in sleep-deprived persons.