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Impact of sleep duration on executive function and brain structure

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Impact of sleep duration on executive function and brain structure nature.com Nature Mar 3, 2022 11 facts

claimIn the study 'Impact of sleep duration on executive function and brain structure', researchers used full information maximum likelihood to estimate missing data, which provides unbiased parameter estimates and standard errors.

referenceThe scientific article titled 'Impact of sleep duration on executive function and brain structure' was authored by X.Y. Tai, C. Chen, S. Manohar, and others, and published in the journal Communications Biology in 2022.

claimA sensitivity analysis of the Executive Function latent variable in the study 'Impact of sleep duration on executive function and brain structure' showed a quadratic relationship between sleep duration and performance across all individual cognitive tasks except for the pairs-matching task, which may be due to a performance ceiling effect.

claimThe article 'Impact of sleep duration on executive function and brain structure' is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

measurementThe study 'Impact of sleep duration on executive function and brain structure' examined the relationship between sleep duration and Executive Function age-residuals in a younger group (38–59 years, n = 262,409) and an older group (60–73 years, n = 212,006).

claimIn the multiple regression model used in the study 'Impact of sleep duration on executive function and brain structure', age was the strongest predictor of Executive Function by an order of magnitude compared to other variables.

claimSmoking status, number of vascular comorbidities (hypertension, hypercholesterolaemia, and diabetes), APOE ε4 genotype, and socioeconomic status were significant predictors of Executive Function in the regression model used in the study 'Impact of sleep duration on executive function and brain structure'.

claimSleep duration is a predictive factor for cognitive function across age in middle-to-late healthy individuals, according to the study 'Impact of sleep duration on executive function and brain structure' published in Nature.

claimThe research work titled 'Impact of sleep duration on executive function and brain structure' was funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Medical Research Council (MRC), specifically through a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellowship to MH, an MRC Clinician Scientist Fellowship to SM, and a Wellcome Trust PhD clinical fellowship to XYT.

claimSeven hours of sleep is associated with the highest Executive Function score when controlling for age, a pattern observed in both younger and older participant groups in the study 'Impact of sleep duration on executive function and brain structure'.

claimThe authors of the article 'Impact of sleep duration on executive function and brain structure' declared that they have no competing interests.