PSY 30312 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Sleep Disorder, Sleep Deprivation, Prefrontal Cortex
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Sleep and development: sleep deprivation causes impairments in the executive control center prefrontal cortex area. Affects most complex tasks those that require the integration of multiple types of information (emotional, cognitive, etc. ) Affects more basic functions of impulsivity/attention: central nervous system tuning occurs when the child is asleep brain recalibrates and the cns recovers from arousal. Sleep= primary activity of the brain during the early years of development. 1 year olds= 13 hours per day. By age 5, more of a balance between sleep and wakefulness. Adolescents need more sleep than children, but not infants. Start to see cognitive impairments when you get less than 7 hours. Infants & toddlers night-time waking: preschool trouble falling asleep as a result of fears, school aged problems when going to bed (behavioral, adolescents staying asleep and self-induced sleep deprivation as a result of homework/technology. Increased psychological need for sleep, but do not get what they need results in chronic fatigue and sleep deprivation.
