Citation

Short MA, Chee MWL. Prog. Brain Res. 2019; 246: 55-71.

Affiliation

Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, Neuroscience and Behavioral Disorders Program, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore. Electronic address: michael.chee@duke-nus.edu.sg.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/bs.pbr.2019.02.008

PMID

31072563

Abstract

Adolescents throughout the world do not obtain adequate sleep. A recent proliferation of experimental and quasi-experimental studies has considerably clarified the relationships between sleep loss and neurobehavioral function suggested by earlier epidemiological and cross-sectional studies. These new studies concur in finding that multiple successive nights of restricted sleep can impair multiple cognitive and affective functions. These effects cumulate from night to night, may not fully recover after weekend recovery sleep and may even be compounded by re-exposure to sleep restriction. An hour long afternoon nap reduces sleepiness in addition to improving vigilance, memory encoding and mood without interfering with nocturnal sleep when the latter is shortened. However, this does not detract from the point that adolescents require approximately 9h of sleep per night for optimal neurobehavioral function, a message that more need to embrace.

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Language: en

Keywords

Adolescent; Affect; Cognition; Emotion regulation; Mood; Sleep; Sleep restriction