Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Adolescent Sleep Patterns
- 1 Sleep and Adolescence: A Social Psychologist's Perspective
- 2 Factors Influencing Sleep Patterns of Adolescents
- 3 Endocrine Changes Associated with Puberty and Adolescence
- 4 Maturational Changes in Sleep-Wake Timing: Longitudinal Studies of the Circadian Activity Rhythm of a Diurnal Rodent
- 5 Nutrition and Circadian Activity Offset in Adolescent Rhesus Monkeys
- 6 Toward a Comparative Developmental Ecology of Human Sleep
- 7 Sleep Patterns of High School Students Living in São Paulo, Brazil
- 8 Sleep Patterns and Daytime Function in Adolescence: An Epidemiological Survey of an Italian High School Student Sample
- 9 Risks of Driving While Sleepy in Adolescents and Young Adults
- 10 What Can the Study of Work Scheduling Tell Us about Adolescent Sleep?
- 11 Accommodating the Sleep Patterns of Adolescents within Current Educational Structures: An Uncharted Path
- 12 Bridging the Gap between Research and Practice: What Will Adolescents' Sleep-Wake Patterns Look Like in the 21st Century?
- 13 Influence of Irregular Sleep Patterns on Waking Behavior
- 14 Stress and Sleep in Adolescence: A Clinical-Developmental Perspective
- 15 The Search for Vulnerability Signatures for Depression in High-Risk Adolescents: Mechanisms and Significance
- 16 The Regulation of Sleep-Arousal, Affect, and Attention in Adolescence: Some Questions and Speculations
- Index
- References
16 - The Regulation of Sleep-Arousal, Affect, and Attention in Adolescence: Some Questions and Speculations
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Adolescent Sleep Patterns
- 1 Sleep and Adolescence: A Social Psychologist's Perspective
- 2 Factors Influencing Sleep Patterns of Adolescents
- 3 Endocrine Changes Associated with Puberty and Adolescence
- 4 Maturational Changes in Sleep-Wake Timing: Longitudinal Studies of the Circadian Activity Rhythm of a Diurnal Rodent
- 5 Nutrition and Circadian Activity Offset in Adolescent Rhesus Monkeys
- 6 Toward a Comparative Developmental Ecology of Human Sleep
- 7 Sleep Patterns of High School Students Living in São Paulo, Brazil
- 8 Sleep Patterns and Daytime Function in Adolescence: An Epidemiological Survey of an Italian High School Student Sample
- 9 Risks of Driving While Sleepy in Adolescents and Young Adults
- 10 What Can the Study of Work Scheduling Tell Us about Adolescent Sleep?
- 11 Accommodating the Sleep Patterns of Adolescents within Current Educational Structures: An Uncharted Path
- 12 Bridging the Gap between Research and Practice: What Will Adolescents' Sleep-Wake Patterns Look Like in the 21st Century?
- 13 Influence of Irregular Sleep Patterns on Waking Behavior
- 14 Stress and Sleep in Adolescence: A Clinical-Developmental Perspective
- 15 The Search for Vulnerability Signatures for Depression in High-Risk Adolescents: Mechanisms and Significance
- 16 The Regulation of Sleep-Arousal, Affect, and Attention in Adolescence: Some Questions and Speculations
- Index
- References
Summary
Pubertal maturation includes an enormous array of changes in social and biological domains. Among these changes are developmental shifts in the control of sleep, arousal, affect, and attention – including both physiologic and behavioral changes. One major theme running through these various developmental changes is the relatively increased influence of executive functions (the use of higher cognitive processes involving regions of prefrontal cortex to guide behaviors according to social rules and long-term goals). The integration of higher cognitive processes with emotional regulation (e.g., learning to inhibit or modulate arousal, attention, and behavior to serve higher cognitive goals) creates the basis for social competence – perhaps the most important outcome variable in adolescent development. However, increased cognitive abilities to override lower levels of regulation also confer a greater capacity for cognitive ideas or attitudes to cause dysregulation at subcortical levels. In a number of ways, adolescence thus appears to represent a vulnerable period regarding the maturational integration of cognitive and emotional processes. It also appears that this highest level of cognitive-emotional integration is most sensitive to the effects of sleep deprivation or inadequate sleep.
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