Publications by authors named "Dawn M DePriest"
Article Synopsis
- Total sleep deprivation (TSD) means not sleeping for a long time, and it can make it hard to pay attention and respond quickly.
- In a study, participants did a test where sometimes they had to stop themselves from responding, and they did this after being awake for over 34 hours.
- Even though their response times were slower, they could still stop themselves from responding correctly when they needed to, showing that they could manage their focus even while really tired.
Total sleep deprivation (TSD) and time-on-task (TOT), especially in combination, increase cognitive instability and cause performance impairment. There are large inter-individual differences in TSD and TOT effects which, in part, have a genetic basis. Here, we show that the dopamine receptor D C957T genetic polymorphism predicts the magnitude of the TOT effect on a psychomotor vigilance test (PVT) during 38 h of TSD.
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