The Cumulative Impact of Adolescent Sleep Loss: Next Steps.
The Cumulative Impact of Adolescent Sleep Loss: Next Steps.
复制标题
青少年睡眠不足的累积影响:后续步骤。
作者:
D. Beebe
It is well recognized that developmental shifts in sleep physiology and societal pressures shorten the typical sleep of adolescents on school nights.1 Adolescents have also shown a steeper decline in sleep duration over the past century than younger children or adults.2,3 However, the implications of these trends are hotly debated. Two papers published in 2012 stoked unrest in the pediatric sleep community. One questioned the evidence base underlying sleep recommendations.4 The other suggested “optimal” sleep durations that were much less than the prevailing recommendation of 9 hours,5 and instead corresponded closely to the average sleep of United States adolescents on school nights.6 There have been three primary responses to those challenges: (1) media coverage that oversimplified the conversation7; (2) re-analysis of existing data that broadened the range of what is considered “recommended”8; and (3) expansion of the scientific knowledge base to incorporate alternative analytic approaches and more sophisticated research designs. In this issue, Lo and colleagues9 take the third route, and propel the field forward by examining, for the first time, day-to-day changes in the effects of experimentally induced chronic partial sleep restriction on adolescents’ attention, working memory, processing speed, subjective sleepiness, and mood. Although not an exact replication, the findings are reminiscent of work with adults published a decade ago and since cited nearly 1,000 times.10 As in adults, adolescents show consistently worsening attention and, to a lesser degree, working memory after each cumulative night of restricted sleep. This effect shows no sign of leveling off across a full week, even though subjective sleepiness and mood level off (but do not reverse) after a few days. This disconnect between subjective experience and objective deficits could lead to a progressive underestimation of impairment,10 which could affect not only learning and social interactions, but also safety (e.g., automobile accidents by adolescent drivers.11) Lo and colleagues’ pioneering work9 clearly shows that there is a cumulative cost associated with partial sleep restriction in adolescents that is objectively verifiable, progressive, reflects a true cause-effect relationship, and may take multiple recovery nights to reverse (though even a single recovery night results in striking improvements). These are critical contributions to the debate over adolescent sleep recommendations. Nevertheless, as seems invariably true, the findings raise new questions, the answers to which will have very practical implications. First, the field must determine the degree to which the findings can be generalized. As Lo and colleagues note, the elite students who participated in their study are an important group to understand in their own right, but they are a unique minority. It is hard to know whether struggling students and demographically dissimilar adolescents will show a greater, pii: sp-00025-16 ht tp://dx.doi.org/10.5665/sleep.5512
影响因子:
5.6
作者:
Van Dongen, HPA;Maislin, G;Dinges, DF
通讯作者:
Dinges, DF
影响因子:
2.2
作者:
Staton,Lori;Hinnant,JBenjamin;Buckhalt,Joseph;El-Sheikh,Mona
通讯作者:
El-Sheikh,Mona
DOI:
10.1056/nejmoa1215881
发表时间:
2013-06-20
期刊:
The New England journal of medicine
影响因子:
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作者:
Marcus CL;Moore RH;Rosen CL;Giordani B;Garetz SL;Taylor HG;Mitchell RB;Amin R;Katz ES;Arens R;Paruthi S;Muzumdar H;Gozal D;Thomas NH;Ware J;Beebe D;Snyder K;Elden L;Sprecher RC;Willging P;Jones D;Bent JP;Hoban T;Chervin RD;Ellenberg SS;Redline S;Childhood Adenotonsillectomy Trial (CHAT)
通讯作者:
Childhood Adenotonsillectomy Trial (CHAT)