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Sleep and Prospective Memory: A Retrospective Study in Different Clinical Populations

Lorenzo Tonetti, Miranda Occhionero, Michele Boreggiani, Andreas Conca, Paola Dondi, Maxime Elbaz, Marco Fabbri, Caroline Gauriau, Giancarlo Giupponi, Damien Leger, Monica Martoni, Chiara Rafanelli, Renzo Roncuzzi, Marina Zoppello and Vincenzo Natale
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Lorenzo Tonetti: Department of Psychology “Renzo Canestrari”, University of Bologna, 40127 Bologna, Italy
Miranda Occhionero: Department of Psychology “Renzo Canestrari”, University of Bologna, 40127 Bologna, Italy
Michele Boreggiani: Department of Psychology “Renzo Canestrari”, University of Bologna, 40127 Bologna, Italy
Andreas Conca: Division of Psychiatry, San Maurizio Hospital, 39100 Bolzano, Italy
Paola Dondi: Division of Hospital Psychology, New Sant’Agostino-Estense Hospital, 41126 Baggiovara, Italy
Maxime Elbaz: Université Paris Descartes, APHP, Hôtel Dieu, Centre du Sommeil et de la Vigilance, Centre de référence hypersomnies rares et EA 7330 VIFASOM, 75004 Paris, France
Marco Fabbri: Department of Psychology, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, 81100 Caserta, Italy
Caroline Gauriau: Université Paris Descartes, APHP, Hôtel Dieu, Centre du Sommeil et de la Vigilance, Centre de référence hypersomnies rares et EA 7330 VIFASOM, 75004 Paris, France
Giancarlo Giupponi: Division of Psychiatry, San Maurizio Hospital, 39100 Bolzano, Italy
Damien Leger: Université Paris Descartes, APHP, Hôtel Dieu, Centre du Sommeil et de la Vigilance, Centre de référence hypersomnies rares et EA 7330 VIFASOM, 75004 Paris, France
Monica Martoni: Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, University of Bologna, 40127 Bologna, Italy
Chiara Rafanelli: Department of Psychology “Renzo Canestrari”, University of Bologna, 40127 Bologna, Italy
Renzo Roncuzzi: Cardiology Service, Villa Erbosa Hospital, 40129 Bologna, Italy
Marina Zoppello: Child Neuropsychiatry Unit, IRCCS Mondino Foundation, 27100 Pavia, Italy
Vincenzo Natale: Department of Psychology “Renzo Canestrari”, University of Bologna, 40127 Bologna, Italy

IJERPH, 2020, vol. 17, issue 17, 1-13

Abstract: Prospective memory (PM) is essential in everyday life because it concerns the ability to remember to perform an intended action in the future. This ability could be influenced by poor sleep quality, the role of which, however, is still being debated. To examine the role of sleep quality in PM in depth, we decided to perform a retrospective naturalistic study examining different clinical populations with a primary sleep disorder or comorbid low sleep quality. If sleep is important for PM function, we could expect poor sleep to affect PM performance tasks both directly and indirectly. We examined a total of 3600 nights, recorded using actigraphy in participants belonging to the following groups: primary insomnia (731 nights); narcolepsy type 1 (1069 nights); attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (152 nights in children and 239 in adults); severe obesity (232 nights); essential hypertension (226 nights); menopause (143 nights); healthy controls (808 nights). In a naturalistic activity-based PM task, each participant originally wore an actigraph around the non-dominant wrist and was requested to push the event-marker button at two specific times of day: bedtime (activity 1) and get-up time (activity 2). Each clinical group showed significantly lower sleep quality in comparison to the control group. However, only narcolepsy type 1 patients presented a significantly impaired PM performance at get-up time, remembering to push the event-marker button around half the time compared not only to healthy controls but also to the other clinical groups. Overall, the present results seem to point to sleep quality having no effect on the efficiency of a naturalistic activity-based PM task. Moreover, the data indicated that narcolepsy type 1 patients may show a disease-specific cognitive deficit of PM.

Keywords: prospective memory; actigraphy; sleep; narcolepsy; primary insomnia; attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; obesity; essential hypertension; menopause (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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