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October-November 2002 |
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If you choose to follow any links to the abstracts and/or complete text of articles, books, and documents listed below, you will be leaving the Strategian Web site. If you wish to return to this page from the Web page you are sent to, please use the Back option of your browser. Feature Items: Gahan Fallone, Christine Acebo, J. Todd Arnedt, Ronald Seifer, and Mary A. Carskadon Effects of Acute Sleep Restriction on Behavior, Sustained Attention, and Response Inhibition in Children. (... the authors set out to assess systematically the effects of acute sleep restriction on the daytime behavior and performance of healthy children and adolescents. And, they asked the question -- could the behavioral manifestations of daytime sleepiness in children appear similar to the symptoms of ADHD [Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder]? The authors took data from a sample of 82 children [from the United States] aged 8-15 years. During the study, one group of children was allowed to sleep from 9 p.m. to 7 a.m. [10 hours] and another group was allowed to sleep from 3 a.m. to 7 a.m. [4 hours]. The children were then evaluated on several tests measuring such things as attention, impulsiveness, behavior associated with ADHD, sleepiness, etc. From the information collected from the study, the authors concluded that limiting time in bed to four hours on a single night was associated with increases in daytime sleep tendency, subjective sleepiness ratings, frequency of observed sleepy behaviors, and ratings of inattentiveness the following day. However, no differences between the group of children allowed to sleep 10 hours and the group allowed to sleep 4 hours emerged for the frequency of observed overactive or inattentive behaviors or ratings of overactivity or impulsivity or with impaired performance on tests of sustained attention and response inhibition. The authors found no evidence to support the prediction that children would mainfest sleepiness as overactivity and impulsivity and there were no differences measured between the two groups for the frequency of behaviors characterized as overactive or inattentive--behaviors such as fidgeting, playing with objects, getting out of seat, vocalizing, or being off-task ... all behaviors that might be seen as symptoms of ADHD. The authors thus suggest that children who seem to have attention problems and are assessed for ADHD also be screened for inadequate or disturbed sleep. Other keywords and phrases -- research, sleep deprivation -- from the text of the article) Perceptual and Motor Skills Volume 93, Number 1 (August 2001): 213-229. How to find the above journals, magazines, and other publications? See Step 3: Locate of the Information Strategy for details. Questions about any or all of the above? Please let me know. |
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