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BEHAVIORAL SLEEP MEDICINE
Volume 9, Issue 2, Pages 68-85Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/15402002.2011.557989
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- Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Ontario Graduate Scholarship
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Event-related potentials may be applied to directly measure information-processing deficits associated with the problem of insomnia. This study is a systematic investigation of cortical hyperarousal during the sleep-onset period in participants with sleep-onset insomnia complaints. Thirteen poor sleepers and twelve good sleepers (GS) were administered an oddball task while awake in the morning and evening and during repeated sleep-onset attempts. Participants signaled detection of a higher pitch target tone as they fell asleep. P2 amplitude was significantly smaller for poor sleepers compared to GS, following standard stimuli at all fronto-central sites, in the pre-sleep waking period at sleep onset. Groups did not differ for N1, N350, or P300 in wake, Stage 1, or Stage 2. The smaller P2 indicates that poor sleepers failed to inhibit the irrelevant standard stimuli. This hyper-attentiveness may explain chronic problems with sleep initiation and could be the target of behavioral and pharmaceutical treatment strategies.
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