Publications by authors named "Lam Yeuk Ching"
Article Synopsis
- The study looked at how being awake for 24 hours affects how people manage their emotions, using a task with emotional faces and words.
- Twenty-five young adults took part, sleeping normally one night and then staying awake the next, before doing the emotional task.
- Results showed that when tired, they were slower and made more mistakes, and their brains used more effort to deal with emotions, suggesting that lack of sleep can mess with handling feelings.
Objective: Accumulating evidence has suggested bidirectionality between sleep problems and depression, but the underlying mechanism is unclear. We assessed the role of sleep in inhibitory control ability with emotional stimuli, which has been shown to be suboptimal among individuals with depression and proposed to perpetuate depressive symptoms.
Methods: Emerging adults (aged 18-25 years, 64.
We assessed the effect of a daytime sleep opportunity on planning and risk-related decision-making in emerging adults using multiple neurobehavioral assessments. A total of 136 healthy emerging adults (20.0 ± 1.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: It has been theoretically proposed that alteration in sleep physiology may contribute to the development of biased emotional processing featured in depression. The current study investigated the role of sleep and especially REM in modulating perception of emotional faces in depressed versus non-depressed individuals using a napping paradigm.
Methods: Forty-six individuals with major depressive disorder and 66 age- and education-matched healthy controls completed an emotional face perception task before and after random assignment to one of the three intention-to-treat (ITT) conditions, namely 30-min-nap, 90-min-nap and wake.
To examine how risk-related decision making might be associated with habitual sleep variables, including sleep variability, sleep duration and perceived sleep need in young adults cross-sectionally and longitudinally. 166 participants completed a 7-day protocol with sleep and risk-related decision-making measures at baseline (T1) and 12 months later (T2). Habitual short sleep duration (averaging < 6 h nightly) was identified in 11.
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