ISSN:
1469-8986
Source:
Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
Topics:
Medicine
,
Psychology
Notes:
The contingent negative variation (CNV) can be spontaneously followed in psychiatric patients by a postimperative negative variation (PINV), and also in normal subjects who have undergone sufficiently intense interference during the CNV paradigm. Our hypothesis was that sleep deprivation could facilitate the induction of a spontaneous PINV which would reflect a transient psychophysiological perturbation. The present experiment investigates the influence of total sleep deprivation on event-related potentials (PINV, CNV, auditory evoked potential), behavioral performance (reaction time), and autonomic response (heart rate).Nineteen subjects participated in the experiment. The subjects were studied before and after 2 consecutive nights of total sleep deprivation. The event-related potentials resulted from the summation of 16 trials. The warning stimulus (tone burst) was followed 1.5 sec later by an imperative stimulus (continuous tone) which was stopped by the subject. After the deprivation, 6 subjects underwent the CNV paradigm with interference.None of the subjects showed a PINV after sleep deprivation either spontaneously or with an interference which had induced it under non-deprived conditions. The CNV and auditory evoked potential (AEP) amplitudes were reduced after the deprivation whereas AEP latencies increased. The unobtainable PINV after sleep deprivation and the low CNV amplitude could suggest a common neurophysiological origin for these two slow potentials.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8986.1983.tb02167.x
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