Relationships Between Sleep Spindle and Cognitive Process in Healthy Adults (FUSO)

Meta-analyses demonstrate that sleep spindles, characterizing NREM sleep, may be a physiological index of high-level cognitive processes. The aim of the study is to determine if sleep spindles can predict interindividual variation in attention and cognitive performance. Relationship between attention and cognitive performance and sleep spindles characteristics (density, frequency and amplitude) recording during 1 night in 80 healthy subject (aged between 18-75y), will be calculated.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Sleep
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: study intervention

Detailed Description

It is currently well demonstrated that sleep promotes brain plasticity and therefore is directly involved in cognitive processes such as memory, language, reasoning, learning, intelligence, problem solving…. Sleep deprivation affects most cognitive processes. More specifically, it is the sleep microstructure and in particular the sleep spindles that are specifically linked to memory, learning and cognitive abilities. Sleep spindles are grapho-elements that characterize NREM sleep. They exhibit high inter-individual stability and variability, depend on the genetic heritage and correlate with anatomical properties of the brain. Sleep spindles can therefore be considered as an electrophysiological "finger-print" as one of the most heritable traits of humans. Studies support the notion that sleep spindles are electrophysiological markers of high-level cognitive abilities. It remains to be seen whether the sleep spindles can predict interindividual variations in attention and executive functions.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 85
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• France
  • Bordeaux, France
    • CHU de Bordeaux

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 75 years (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Male or female subjects, aged 18 to 75,
• BMI between 18 and 27,
• Having no subjective daytime sleepiness (Epworth scale score ≤ 11),
• Subjects affiliated to a social security scheme,
• Subjects capable of understanding the study,
• Subjects available to come to the 2 visits required by the study,
• Having given written informed consent to participate in the study,
• Free, informed and written consent, dated and signed by the patient and the investigator before any examination required by the research,
• For simulated driving sub-study: Having a driving license (subsample).

Exclusion Criteria:

• Severe pathologies involving the short-term vital prognosis,
• Uncontrolled endocrine pathologies (dysthyroidism, diabetes),
• All progressive cardiovascular conditions,
• All progressive neurological conditions treated or not (brain tumor, epilepsy, migraine, stroke, sclerosis, myoclonus, chorea, neuropathy, muscular dystrophies, myotonic dystrophy ...),
• Current Psychiatric disorder: mood disorder (depression, bipolar disorder), anxiety disorder, psychosis
• Substance-related dependence,
• Shift workers or night workers who have been on call or on call in the last 72 hours,
• Psychotropic patients,
• Long-term treatment with benzodiazepines and z-drugs,
• Patients on cardiotropic,
• Deprived of liberty by a judicial or administrative decision,
• Pregnant or lactating woman,
• Subject under curatorship or tutorship.
• For simulated driving sub-study: Having simulator-sickness during the first practice session evaluated by Simulator Sickness Questionnaire (SSQ)

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Basic Science
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm

Intervention / Treatment

Experimental: healthy volunteers

Other: study intervention; The sleep structure of healthy volunteers will be recorded (9 Electroencephalograms (EEG), 2 Electrooculograms (EOG), 2 Electromyograms (EMG) and 2 Electrocardiograms (ECG)) during 1 night. The characteristics of the spindle (density, frequency and amplitude) will be automatically analyzed from purified EEG during Non Rapid Eye Movement sleep (NREM). Volunteers will completed a neuropsychological evaluation that will evaluate Sustained attention (simple reaction time test), Vigilance (TAP Vigilance), Sustained and selective attention (CPT II), Inhibition (Stroop test), Mental flexibility (TAP flexibility) , Executive operation (Tower of London), Short-term memory (Wechsler code test). Driving performance will be analyzed as part of a complex scenario involving attentional and high-level functions on a driving simulator.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Sleep spindle during N2 sleep stage	Characteristics of the sleep spindles generated during the N2 sleep stages. The sleep spindles density will be calculated automatically on the EEG Cz and Fz channels. The amplitude and frequency will be calculated automatically on the EEG Cz and Fz channels. The sleep spindles will also be divided, according to their frequency: into fast zones (13-15 Hz) and slow zones (11-13 Hz).	during experimental visit (between day 1 and day 14 after inclusion)
Sleep spindle during N3 sleep stage	Characteristics of the sleep spindles generated during the N3 sleep stage. The sleep spindles density will be calculated automatically on the EEG Cz and Fz channels. The amplitude and frequency will be calculated automatically on the EEG Cz and Fz channels. The sleep spindles will also be divided, according to their frequency: into fast zones (13-15 Hz) and slow zones (11-13 Hz).	during experimental visit (between day 1 and day 14 after inclusion)

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University Hospital, Bordeaux

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): January 19, 2021
• Primary Completion (Actual): December 16, 2021
• Study Completion (Actual): December 16, 2021

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: October 8, 2020
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 15, 2020
• First Posted (Actual): October 22, 2020

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): July 18, 2022
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 15, 2022
• Last Verified: July 1, 2022

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Sleep spindles; cognitive processes
• Other Study ID Numbers: CHUBX 2020/24

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: Undecided

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No