1. Macro and micro sleep architecture and cognitive performance in older adults
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Sara Mariani, Ina Djonlagic, Katie L. Stone, Veerle M G T H Van Der Klei, Annette L. Fitzpatrick, Stephen R. Rapp, Michael J. Prerau, Ha T Nguyen, Shaun Purcell, José A. Luchsinger, Gregory J. Tranah, Teresa E. Seeman, Joseph M. Dzierzewski, Dayna A. Johnson, Kristine Yaffe, Katherine E. Burdick, Alexis C. Wood, and Susan Redline
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0303 health sciences ,Multivariate analysis ,Social Psychology ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,Eye movement ,Experimental and Cognitive Psychology ,Cognition ,Electroencephalography ,Neurophysiology ,Sleep in non-human animals ,03 medical and health sciences ,Behavioral Neuroscience ,0302 clinical medicine ,medicine ,Effects of sleep deprivation on cognitive performance ,Macro ,Psychology ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,030304 developmental biology ,Cognitive psychology - Abstract
We sought to determine which facets of sleep neurophysiology were most strongly linked to cognitive performance in 3,819 older adults from two independent cohorts, using whole-night electroencephalography. From over 150 objective sleep metrics, we identified 23 that predicted cognitive performance, and processing speed in particular, with effects that were broadly independent of gross changes in sleep quality and quantity. These metrics included rapid eye movement duration, features of the electroencephalography power spectra derived from multivariate analysis, and spindle and slow oscillation morphology and coupling. These metrics were further embedded within broader associative networks linking sleep with aging and cardiometabolic disease: individuals who, compared with similarly aged peers, had better cognitive performance tended to have profiles of sleep metrics more often seen in younger, healthier individuals. Taken together, our results point to multiple facets of sleep neurophysiology that track coherently with underlying, age-dependent determinants of cognitive and physical health trajectories in older adults.
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- 2020
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