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Cognitive Performance, Sleepiness, and Mood in Partially Sleep Deprived Adolescents: The Need for Sleep Study.
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Who cites it
192 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 408 citations in OpenAlex.
- Efficacy of multiple acupoint stimulation therapies for primary insomnia patients: a systematic review and network meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- Shared Determinants of Poor Sleep, Obesity and Adiposity in Adolescents Aged 8-18-Years: A Systematic Review.Journal of sleep research · 2025Pooled it
- Efficacy of psychological interventions on sleep in children and adolescents with chronic pain: a systematic review with meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Impairment of executive functions due to sleep alterations: An integrative review on the use of P300.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Pooled it
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- A systematic review and meta-analysis of behavioral sleep interventions for adolescents and emerging adults.Sleep medicine reviews · 2020Pooled it
- Chronotype-aligned exercise timing in middle-aged adults at cardiometabolic risk: a randomised controlled trial.Open heart · 2026Trial
- Adolescent sleep restriction, macronutrient consumption, and self-reported hunger: A randomized clinical trial.Clinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland) · 2026Trial
- Auditory stimulation during deep sleep enhances total slow-wave activity in a young cohort: A feasibility trial.Journal of sleep research · 2025Trial
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- What theThe western journal of emergency medicine · 2024Trial
- Effects of sleep fragmentation and partial sleep restriction on heart rate variability during night.Scientific reports · 2023Trial
- Impact of sleep restriction on affective functioning in adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2020Trial
- Structural Alterations in Large-scale Brain Networks and Their Relationship with Sleep Disturbances in the Adolescent Population.Scientific reports · 2020Trial
- Challenges in implementing and assessing outcomes of school start time change in the UK: experience of the Oxford Teensleep study.Sleep medicine · 2019Trial
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- Shortened Sleep Duration Causes Sleepiness, Inattention, and Oppositionality in Adolescents With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Findings From a Crossover Sleep Restriction/Extension Study.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2019Trial
- Strategy Development Pilot Study of Sleep-Restricted Operators Using Small Satellites with Displays.Aerospace medicine and human performance · 2018Trial
- Impact of Multi-Night Experimentally Induced Short Sleep on Adolescent Performance in a Simulated Classroom.Sleep · 2017Trial
132 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
STUDY
objectivesTo investigate the effects of sleep restriction (7 nights of 5 h time in bed [TIB]) on cognitive performance, subjective sleepiness, and mood in adolescents.
methodsA parallel-group design was adopted in the Need for Sleep Study. Fifty-six healthy adolescents (25 males, age = 15-19 y) who studied in top high schools and were not habitual short sleepers were randomly assigned to Sleep Restriction (SR) or Control groups. Participants underwent a 2-w protocol consisting of 3 baseline nights (TIB = 9 h), 7 nights of sleep opportunity manipulation (TIB = 5 h for the SR and 9 h for the control groups), and 3 nights of recovery sleep (TIB = 9 h) at a boarding school. A cognitive test battery was administered three times each day.
resultsDuring the manipulation period, the SR group demonstrated incremental deterioration in sustained attention, working memory and executive function, increase in subjective sleepiness, and decrease in positive mood. Subjective sleepiness and sustained attention did not return to baseline levels even after 2 recovery nights. In contrast, the control group maintained baseline levels of cognitive performance, subjective sleepiness, and mood throughout the study. Incremental improvement in speed of processing, as a result of repeated testing and learning, was observed in the control group but was attenuated in the sleep-restricted participants, who, despite two recovery sleep episodes, continued to perform worse than the control participants.
conclusionsA week of partial sleep deprivation impairs a wide range of cognitive functions, subjective alertness, and mood even in high-performing high school adolescents. Some measures do not recover fully even after 2 nights of recovery sleep. COMMENTARY: A commentary on this article appears in this issue on page 497.
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