Effect Of Sleep On Adolescents - 1131 Words

The notion that mood can affect performance of everyday tasks has been highly suggested by broad amounts of research such as the study done by Haack and Mullington at Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School in 2005, where they found that deprivation of sleep has a negative effect on mood regulation as well as the physical being of an adult (Mullington 2005). However, these studies cannot be applied to the adolescent person because of the differences of the maturity in the brain from an adolescent person to an adult person (Ryan 1992). The effect deprivation of sleep on adolescents’ mood may suggestion that school during the formative years should start later because students would be†¦show more content†¦Short and Luca studied the participants for three consecutive nights at the Sleep Laboratory of the Centre for Sleep Research, from four p.m. on the first day until eight p.m. fourth day (2015). What they found was that their analyses revealed depressed mood, anxiety, anger, confusion, fatigue, and energy were worsened after only one night without sleep when compared to the normal sleep pattern days, baseline days (Short and Louca 2015). Their research suggests that while mood worsens during the night, the participants’ mood didn’t seem to recover the following day; in fact, the mood seemed even worse about five a.m. and stayed low throughout the day (Short and Louca 2015). Short’s and Louca’s research suggests a surprising effect on adolescent females, as they showed a heightened sensitivity to mood deficits following the deprivation of sleep; particularly females had a significant elevation of anxiety and depressed mood after one night without sleep (2015). Short and Louca believe that this surprise may suggest that females are more affected than males to the deprivation of sleep on mood, which they believe may account for the higher amounts of anxiety and depressed m ood in adolescent females than that of adolescent males (2015). This study done by Short and Louca suggests a causal relationship between sleep deprivation and depression. It suggests that even by one night of being not well-rested for an adolescent plays a huge role in