Cognitive, Behavioral, and Functional Consequences of Inadequate Sleep in Children and Adolescents
By D. Beebe. The Pediatric clinics of North America, 2011
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Synopsis During the past few decades, studies using multiple research designs have examined whether sleep during childhood and adolescence is related to cognition, behavior, and other aspects of daytime functioning. This paper summarizes recent correlational, case-control, quasi-experimental, and experimental studies, highlighting how the strengths and limitations of each research design are complementary, thereby allowing one to more confidently draw conclusions when viewing the research literature as a whole. Viewed in this manner, published findings suggest that inadequate sleep quality and/or quantity can cause sleepiness, inattention and, very likely, other cognitive and behavioral deficits that significantly impact children and adolescents in important functional settings (e.g., school). This paper then integrates findings from longitudinal studies within a developmental psychopathology model. In this model, inadequate sleep is viewed as a noxious exposure that can, over time, fundamentally alter a child or adolescent's development, resulting in poorer long-term outcomes. Important research questions remain, but the available evidence supports the integration of sleep screening and interventions into routine clinical care and also supports advocacy for public policy changes to improve the sleep of children and adolescents.
Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Education, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
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- Sleep restriction worsens mood and emotion regulation in adolescents (2013, background): “In the adolescent brain, the prefrontal-subcortical circuits that govern emotion are rapidly developing (Giedd, 2004; McRae et al., 2012), and sleep researchers have speculated that chronic sleep restriction can alter that development (Beebe, 2011).”