The relation between sleep deprivation and academic performance

Name: Professor: Course: Date: Annotated Bibliography: The Relation between Sleep Deprivation and Academic Performance Bianchi, Matt. Sleep Deprivation and Disease: Effects on the Body, Brain, and Behavior. Springer, 2014, pp. 47-63. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4614-9087-6 In this book, Matt Bianchi explores sleep deprivation and disease on the body, brain, and behavior. The book deeply highlights the delicate interaction between neurological diseases and sleeping disorders. It brings out the understanding that the interrelationship between neurological and sleep disorders is considered bidirectional, with some neurological conditions considered to increase the likelihood of getting sleep disorders while the reverse may also apply. According to the author, neurological disorders, for instance, may disrupt sleep patterns, and sleep disorders, in turn, may either cause the neurological symptoms to intensify or may even be the actual cause of a neurological condition. It becomes clear from this reading that addressing the root causes of sleep-related disorders may improve quality of life in addition to reducing neurological complications among individuals. Through highlighting the treatability of many sleep disorders, the reading reinforces the need to investigate sleep conditions and their management in vulnerable people with neurodegenerative diseases. I find this book beneficial because it broadens my understanding of what sleep deprivation means and causes. Further, the book sets a platform for understanding strategies that must be taken to address sleep deprivation before it triggers any impacts. However, the book does not explore the issue of sleep deprivation and its impacts on academic performance explicitly. Still, it can be used to steer debates on how neurological alterations can lead to sleep deprivation or lack thereof and the impacts that such alterations could trigger on learners. Also, the book does not accommodate any research. As such, its claims can be used to experiment and determine their validity. Dewald-Kaufmann, Julia F., Frans Jeroen Oort, and Anne Marie Meijer. "The Effects of Sleep Extension on Sleep and Cognitive Performance in Adolescents with Chronic Sleep Reduction: An Experimental Study." Sleep Medicine, vol. 14, no. 6, 2013, pp. 510-517. In this experimental study, Dewald-Kaufmann, Oort, and Meijer investigate the effects of the gradual extension of sleep duration on adolescents who suffer significantly from chronic sleep reduction. The study involves sleep extension for 55 adolescents with symptoms of chronic sleep loss, in addition to a control group that acts as a placebo against the intervention group. During three weeks, participants' sleep patterns are monitored by actigraphy, with the first week as a sleep baseline and the subsequent two weeks as experimental weeks. Students in the intervention group are taught to shift their bedtime by 5 minutes nightly to extend their sleep and their weekends should have similar bedtime schedules. Cognitive functioning is evaluated by pre-experimental manipulation and post-experimental manipulation. The learners who were in the sleep extension group began their bedtime routine earlier, had earlier bedtimes, and spent more time in bed as well as having longer sleep duration than those in the control group in the last week of the study. Study results show that the group that got additional sleep also demonstrated higher performances for visuospatial processing and other aspects of cognitive performance while those in control did not produce significant effects. These results and this article imply that adequate sleep may help youths with chronic sleep shortages to both have improved sleep patterns and cognitive function. The findings by Dewald-Kaufmann et al can be vital in understanding the knowledge gaps when it comes to the relationship between sleep deprivation and academic performance. It also sets grounds for the necessary experiments when there is need to determine the links between sleep deprivation and academic performance. However, it is impossible to rely on the findings by Dewald-Kaufmann et al. exclusively because their study is limited only to a sample frame of 55 respondents. Additionally, this experimentation needs to take a cohort approach to allow for the assessment of the learners through multiple examination formats. Maheshwari, Ganpat, and Faizan Shaukat. "Impact of Poor Sleep Quality on the Academic Performance of Medical Students." Cureus, vol. 11, no. 4, 2019, pp 149-156. This article by Ganpat Maheswari and Faizan Shaukat explores whether ...