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Download fileSleep and the heart: interoceptive differences linked to poor experiential sleep quality in anxiety and depression
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posted on 2023-06-09, 06:43 authored by Donna L Ewing, Miranda Manassei, Cassandra Gould van Praag, Andy PhilippidesAndy Philippides, Hugo CritchleyHugo Critchley, Sarah GarfinkelInteroception is the sense through which internal bodily changes are signalled and perceived. Individual differences in interoception are linked to emotional style and vulnerability to affective disorders. Here we test how experiential sleep quality relates to dimensions of interoceptive ability. 180 adults (42 ‘non-clinical’ individuals, 138 patients accessing mental health services) rated their quality of sleep before performing tests of cardiac interoception. Poor sleep quality was associated with lower measures of interoceptive performance accuracy, and higher self-report measures of interoceptive sensibility in individuals with diagnoses of depression and/or anxiety. Additionally, poor sleep quality was associated with impaired metacognitive interoceptive awareness in patients with diagnoses of depression (alone or with anxiety). Thus, poor sleep quality, a common early expression of psychological disorder, impacts cardiac interoceptive ability and experience across diagnoses. Sleep disruption can contribute to the expression of affective psychopathology through effects on perceptual and interpretative dimensions of bodily awareness.
Funding
The Sackler Centre Donation; G0318; SACKLER-DR MORTIMER AND THERESA SACKLER FOUNDATION
Cardiac control of fear in brain; G1120; EUROPEAN UNION; 324150 CCFIB
History
Publication status
- Published
File Version
- Published version
Journal
Biological PsychologyISSN
0301-0511Publisher
ElsevierExternal DOI
Volume
127Page range
163-172Department affiliated with
- BSMS Neuroscience Publications
Research groups affiliated with
- Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science Publications
Full text available
- Yes
Peer reviewed?
- Yes