Sleepiness and Cognitive Performance among Younger and Older Adolescents across a 28-Hour Forced Desynchrony Protocol

Conclusions:Adolescents demonstrated a similar pattern of response to forced desynchrony as reported for adults. Sleepiness and performance were affected by homeostatic and circadian factors, and age group did not interact with homoeostatic and circadian factors for subjective sleepiness and most performance metrics. Younger adolescents had a shorter latency to sleep onset than older during the circadian bin spanning 4 to 8 h after the onset of melatonin secretion.Citation:Wu LJ, Acebo C, Seifer R, Carskadon MA. Sleepiness and cognitive performance among younger and older adolescents across a 28-hour forced desynchrony protocol. SLEEP 2015;38(12):1965–1972.
Source: Sleep - Category: Sleep Medicine Source Type: research