Journal
SLEEP
Volume 39, Issue 10, Pages 1779-1794Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.5665/sleep.6154
Keywords
FDG; PET; insomnia; neuroimaging
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- Sepracor, Inc.
- Novartis Pharmaceuticals
- Cereve, Inc.
- Emmi Solutions
- [T32HL082610]
- [T32MH018269]
- [T32MH019986]
- [K01AG049879]
- [K01DA032557]
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Study Objectives: The neurobiological mechanisms of insomnia may involve altered patterns of activation across sleep-wake states in brain regions associated with cognition, self-referential processes, affect, and sleep-wake promotion. The objective of this study was to compare relative regional cerebral metabolic rate for glucose (rCMR(glc)) in these brain regions across wake and nonrapid eye movement (NREM) sleep states in patients with primary insomnia (PI) and good sleeper controls (GS). Methods: Participants included 44 PI and 40 GS matched for age (mean = 37 y old, range 21-60), sex, and race. We conducted [F-18] fluoro-2-deoxy-dglucose positron emission tomography scans in PI and GS during both morning wakefulness and NREM sleep at night. Repeated measures analysis of variance was used to test for group (PI vs. GS) by state (wake vs. NREM sleep) interactions in relative rCMR(glc). Results: Significant group-by-state interactions in relative rCMR(glc) were found in the precuneus/posterior cingulate cortex, left middle frontal gyrus, left inferior/superior parietal lobules, left lingual/fusiform/occipital gyri, and right lingual gyrus. All clusters were significant at P-corrected < 0.05. Conclusions: Insomnia was characterized by regional alterations in relative glucose metabolism across NREM sleep and wakefulness. Significant group-by-state interactions in relative rCMRglc suggest that insomnia is associated with impaired disengagement of brain regions involved in cognition (left frontoparietal), self-referential processes (precuneus/posterior cingulate), and affect (left middle frontal, fusiform/lingual gyri) during NREM sleep, or alternatively, to impaired engagement of these regions during wakefulness.
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