Sleep in adolescence: Physiology, cognition and mental health

Tarokh, Leila; Saletin, Jared M.; Carskadon, Mary A.

doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2016.08.008

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“…Children raised under irregular family circumstances might lack those cues, or might receive irregular cues and struggle to adequately adapt their circadian rhythms. Moreover, adolescents with a delayed sleep onset often have chronic insufficient sleep (Billows et al., ; Carskadon, Acebo, & Jenni, ; Tarokh, Saletin, & Carskadon, ). Importantly, the current findings underscore the potential of family interventions targeted at family irregularity, a documented modifiable risk factor.…”

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Preschool family irregularity and the development of sleep problems in childhood: a longitudinal study

Koopman‐Verhoeff

Serdarević

Kocevska

et al. 2019

Child Psychology Psychiatry

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BackgroundPrevious studies have shown that poor family environments are related to more sleep problems; however, little is known about how family irregularity in early life affects the development of sleep problems over childhood using objective sleep measures. The current study tests the hypothesis that early family irregularity contributes to the development of sleep problems.MethodsThis population‐based study comprises 5,443 children from the Generation R Study. Family irregularity was measured with seven maternal‐reported questions on family routines when children were 2 and 4 years old. Mothers reported on sleep problems at child age 3, 6, and 10 years, whereas children completed questionnaires on sleep problems at age 10. Additionally, we used tri‐axial wrist accelerometers for five nights in 851 children (mean age 11.7 years) to assess sleep objectively.ResultsFamily irregularity was associated with more mother‐ and child‐reported sleep problems at ages 3, 6, and 10 years as well as with a shorter sleep duration and later objective sleep onset, but not with sleep efficiency or waking time. The association between family irregularity and multi‐informant subjective sleep problems at age 10 years was mediated by mother‐reported child psychopathology at age 6 years.ConclusionsOur findings show a long‐term robust association of preschool family irregularity with more sleep problems during childhood as well as shorter sleep duration and later sleep onset as measured objectively with actigraphy. In part, these sleep problems were associated with family irregularity by way of child psychopathology. These findings suggest that interventions improving preschool family irregularity, which are targeted to reduce child psychopathology, may also impact the development of sleep problems beneficially.

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Preschool family irregularity and the development of sleep problems in childhood: a longitudinal study

Koopman‐Verhoeff

Serdarević

Kocevska

et al. 2019

Child Psychology Psychiatry

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“…Decreases in total sleep time, sleep efficiency and slow‐wave sleep across the lifespan are well known (Ohayon, Carskadon, Guilleminault, & Vitiello, ). While these decreases follow a marginal trend from adulthood to old age, the most drastic changes in sleep architecture occur during adolescence starting with the onset of puberty between 9 and 12 years of age (Crone & Dahl, ; Ohayon et al., ; Tarokh, Saletin, & Carskadon, ). However, changes in sleep during adolescence are not only present at the macroscopic level of sleep architecture but also at the level of cortical oscillations unique to the sleeping brain, namely sleep spindles (Campbell & Feinberg, ; Nicolas, Petit, Rompre, & Montplaisir, ; Purcell et al., ; Scholle, Zwacka, & Scholle, ; Shinomiya, Nagata, Takahashi, & Masumura, ).…”

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Developmental changes of sleep spindles and their impact on sleep‐dependent memory consolidation and general cognitive abilities: A longitudinal approach

Hahn

Joechner

Roell

et al. 2018

Developmental Science

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Sleep spindles are related to sleep-dependent memory consolidation and general cognitive abilities. However, they undergo drastic maturational changes during adolescence. Here we used a longitudinal approach (across 7 years) to explore whether developmental changes in sleep spindle density can explain individual differences in sleep-dependent memory consolidation and general cognitive abilities. Ambulatory polysomnography was recorded during four nights in 34 healthy subjects (24 female) with two nights (baseline and experimental) at initial recording (age range 8-11 years) and two nights at follow-up recording (age range 14-18 years). For declarative learning, participants encoded word pairs with a subsequent recall before and after sleep. General cognitive abilities were measured by the Wechsler Intelligence Scale. Higher slow (11-13 Hz) than fast (13-15 Hz) spindle density at frontal, central, and parietal sites during initial recordings, followed by a shift to higher fast than slow spindle density at central and parietal sites during follow-up recordings, suggest that mature spindle topography develops throughout adolescence. Fast spindle density increases from baseline to experimental night were positively related to sleep-dependent memory consolidation. In addition, we found that the development of fast spindles predicted the improvement in memory consolidation across the two longitudinal measurements, a finding that underlines a crucial role for mature fast spindles for sleep-dependent memory consolidation. Furthermore, slow spindle changes across adolescence were related to general cognitive abilities, a relationship that could indicate the maturation of frontal networks relevant for efficient cognitive processing.

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“…2 Insufficient sleep negatively impacts learning and development and acutely alters judgment, particularly among youth. 3 We estimated associations between sleep duration and adolescent personal safety risk-taking behaviors in United States high school students.…”

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Dose-Dependent Associations Between Sleep Duration and Unsafe Behaviors Among US High School Students

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Youths in America are sleeping less than ever before. More than 70% of high school students average less than 8 hours of sleep, 1 falling short of the 8 to 10 hours that adolescents need for optimal health. 2 Insufficient sleep negatively affects learning and development and acutely alters judgment, particularly among youths. 3 We estimated associations between sleep duration and personal safety risk-taking behaviors in US high school students.Methods | We used data from high school students who responded to the Youth Risk Behavior Survey between February 2007 and May 2015. 4 The Youth Risk Behavior Survey is administered biannually to a nationally representative sample of students of all ages enrolled in grades 9 to 12 at public and private schools. Sleep duration on an "average" school night was categorized as 8 hours or more, 7 hours, 6 hours, or less than 6 hours. Personal safety risk-taking behaviors were examined individually and as composite categories. We weighted all analyses to account for the complex survey design and controlled for age, sex, race/ethnicity, and year of survey in weighted logistic regression models to test the association between sleep duration and each outcome of interest. The study was exempt from institutional review board review, as this analysis used publicly available data without identifiable information and these activities are not considered human participants research. Data were originally collected with parental permission. Student participation was anonymous and voluntary.

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Sleep in adolescence: Physiology, cognition and mental health

Cited by 356 publications

References 84 publications

Preschool family irregularity and the development of sleep problems in childhood: a longitudinal study

Preschool family irregularity and the development of sleep problems in childhood: a longitudinal study

Developmental changes of sleep spindles and their impact on sleep‐dependent memory consolidation and general cognitive abilities: A longitudinal approach

Dose-Dependent Associations Between Sleep Duration and Unsafe Behaviors Among US High School Students

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