Impact of sleep duration on executive function and brain structure

Xin You Tai; Cheng Chen; Sanjay Manohar; Masud Husain

doi:10.1038/s42003-022-03123-3

Communications Biology (Mar 2022)

Impact of sleep duration on executive function and brain structure

Xin You Tai,
Cheng Chen,
Sanjay Manohar,
Masud Husain

Affiliations

Xin You Tai: Nuffield Department of Clinical Neuroscience, University of Oxford
Cheng Chen: Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford
Sanjay Manohar: Nuffield Department of Clinical Neuroscience, University of Oxford
Masud Husain: Nuffield Department of Clinical Neuroscience, University of Oxford

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03123-3
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Tai et al. examine sleep, cognitive and brain imaging data from middle-to-late life healthy individuals from the UK Biobank. They show that between six and eight hours of sleep duration is associated with the highest cognitive performance and larger grey matter volume in several areas of the brain.

Published in Communications Biology

ISSN: 2399-3642 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science: Biology (General)
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