Exploring the within-person coupling of sleep and cognition in older African Americans
Alyssa A Gamaldo1, Jason C Allaire, Keith E Whitfield
1National Institute on Aging, National Institute of Health, Intramural Research Program, Biomedical Research Center, 251 Bayview Blvd., Baltimore, MD 21224, USA. agamaldo@gmail.com
Abstract:
This study examined the within-person relationship between sleep and cognitive functioning. Fifty community-dwelling African Americans (age range = 50-80 years) were asked to report their sleep duration and quality the previous evening and to complete cognitive measures over 8 occasions within a 2-3 week period. A within-person daily change in sleep duration was significantly associated with worse global cognitive performance. The greater an individual deviated away from his or her average sleep duration on a particular day, the more likely his or her performance would decline. These results demonstrate that the sleep-cognition relationship can be observed at a within-person level of analysis.
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