Trial reportScientific reports2021
Sleep deprivation affects gait control.
Trial report in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 25 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effects of sleep deprivation on heart rate variability: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Pooled it
- Impact of 24-hour shifts on interns' gait: A study on sleep deprivation and rest effects.Work (Reading, Mass.) · 2026Article
- Impact of Sleep Quality on Gait Variability: Pilot Cohort Study.JMIR aging · 2026Article
- Short-Term Sleep Disruption Does Not Modify Responses to Experimentally Induced Knee Pain in Healthy Individuals.European journal of pain (London, England) · 2026Article
- Caffeine-augmented exercise as a pretreatment for locomotor and balance impairments induced by REM sleep deprivation in rats.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Low-to-Moderate Daytime Physical Activities Predicted Higher-Quality Sleep Among Habitually Active Agropastoralists.American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council · 2025Article
- The "Hedgehog-Halo Sign" Is Associated with Gait Symptom Severity and Tap Response in Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus.Movement disorders clinical practice · 2025Article
- Sensorimotor perturbation-induced cortical responses by a novel PES system: analysis of the N1 component in healthy adults and Parkinson's disease.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Article
- Sleep architecture and quality and pain experience in individuals with persistent low back pain and asymptomatic controls.PloS one · 2025Article
- The relationship between sleep quality and gait in people with multiple sclerosis: A pilot study.Hong Kong physiotherapy journal : official publication of the Hong Kong Physiotherapy Association Limited = Wu li chih liao · 2024Article
- The Effect of a Cognitive Dual Task on Gait Parameters among Healthy Young Adults with Good and Poor Sleep Quality: A Cross-Sectional Analysis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Association between Self-reported Sleep Quality and Single-task Gait in Young Adults: A Study Using Machine Learning.Sleep science (Sao Paulo, Brazil) · 2023Article
- An autonomic mode of brain activity.Progress in neurobiology · 2023Article
- Association between Self-Reported Prior Night's Sleep and Single-Task Gait in Healthy, Young Adults: A Study Using Machine Learning.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Does poor sleep quality and excessive daytime sleepiness influence fear of falling among older adults? A cross-sectional study.Sleep and biological rhythms · 2022Article
- The Association Between Gait Speed and Sleep Problems Among Chinese Adults Aged 50 and Greater.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
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5 authors at 3 institutions in 4 countries.
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Abstract
Different levels of sleep restriction affect human performance in multiple aspects. However, it is unclear how sleep deprivation affects gait control. We applied a paced gait paradigm that included subliminal rhythm changes to analyze the effects of different sleep restriction levels (acute, chronic and control) on performance. Acute sleep deprivation (one night) group exhibited impaired performance in the sensorimotor synchronization gait protocol, such as a decrease in the Period Error between the footfalls and the auditory stimulus as well as missing more frequently the auditory cues. The group with chronic sleep restriction also underperformed when compared to the control group with a tendency to a late footfall with respect to the RAC sound. Our results suggest that partial or total sleep deprivation leads to a decrease in the performance in the sensorimotor control of gait. The superior performance of the chronic sleep group when compared to the acute group suggests that there is a compensatory mechanism that helps to improve motor performance.
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