Source: DGNews  |  Posted 8 years ago

By Roberta Friedman, PhD

NEW ORLEANS, LA -- November 14, 2003 -- Lack of a night's sleep is paid for the next day in impaired function of the frontal cortex, as measured by electroencephalograph (EEG) potentials. This finding was reported here November 11th by sleep researchers at the Society for Neuroscience 33rd Annual Meeting.

Amplitudes of components of the EEG taken over the frontal and parietal cortex changed significantly in people kept awake in the lab overnight. According to study investigator Roger Godbout, PhD, professor of psychiatry, Universit