Behavioral and Neural Consequences of Sleep Loss on Adolescent Affective Function
Description: Biological changes at puberty create a natural tendency to prefer staying up late as well as increased sleepiness, however, these key sleep behaviors (patterns of staying up late and erratic sleep/wake schedules) are largely an interaction between these biologic tendencies and the social environment (i.e., effects of artificial light, stimulating social media such as texting and the internet, and other highly rewarding activities combined with early school start times). Moreover, these interactions are conspiring to rob youth of sleep at a time of critical maturational changes in physical, social, and affective development. Achieving a deeper and more mechanistic understanding of how sleep deprivation impacts affective function is crucial to the long-term goal of informing clinical and social policy targeting the specific aspects of the social environment and adolescent behavior that interferes with sleep, particularly at key times in the development of more serious dysfunctions, including the trajectory of affective disorders (depression, anxiety, and bipolar disorder) and substance use disorders.
Funder: National Institute on Drug Abuse
Funding type: research
Funder scheme: R01
Start date: 2011-08-15
End date: 2015-12-31
Investigator: PETER L FRANZEN
Institution: UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH
Topic: Sleep and related disorders
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Funded outputs count: 13
Funder award ID: R01DA033064
OpenAlex ID: G3316339334