Ontogeny of Sleep and Its Functions in Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence

Grigg-Damberger, Madeleine

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-28640-2_1

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“…During the phase of prematurity, the largest portion of sleep consists of active sleep (AS), the predecessor of rapid eye movement sleep. This sleep stage is most important for brain development and maturation 19,20 . The highest relative amount of AS is observed at extremely premature age and decreases gradually up to term 19,20 .…”

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Caffeine preserves quiet sleep in preterm neonates

Koch

Schönfeld

Jost

et al. 2020

Pharmacology Res & Perspec

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Caffeine is widely used in preterm neonates suffering from apnea of prematurity (AOP), and it has become one of the most frequently prescribed medications in neonatal intensive care units. Goal of this study is to investigate how caffeine citrate treatment affects sleep‐wake behavior in preterm neonates. The observational study consists of 64 preterm neonates during their first 5 days of life with gestational age (GA) <32 weeks or very low birthweight of < 1500 g. A total of 52 patients treated with caffeine citrate and 12 patients without caffeine citrate were included. Sleep‐wake behavior was scored in three stages: active sleep, quiet sleep, and wakefulness. Individual caffeine concentration of every neonate was simulated with a pharmacokinetic model. In neonates with GA ≥ 28 weeks, wakefulness increased and active sleep decreased with increasing caffeine concentrations, whereas quiet sleep remained unchanged. In neonates with GA < 28 weeks, no clear caffeine effects on sleep‐wake behavior could be demonstrated. Caffeine increases fraction of wakefulness, alertness, and most probably also arousability at cost of active but not quiet sleep in preterm neonates. As such, caffeine should therefore not affect time for physical and cerebral regeneration during sleep in preterm neonates.

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Caffeine preserves quiet sleep in preterm neonates

Koch

Schönfeld

Jost

et al. 2020

Pharmacology Res & Perspec

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“…Sleep is the predominant state in infants, and its importance for early development is unchallenged (for a recent review, see Grigg‐Damberger, ). Longitudinal research has shown, for instance, that sleep maturation predicts memory development.…”

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The reciprocal relation between sleep and memory in infancy: Memory‐dependent adjustment of sleep spindles and spindle‐dependent improvement of memories

Friedrich

Mölle

Friederici

et al. 2018

Developmental Science

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Sleep spindle activity in infants supports their formation of generalized memories during sleep, indicating that specific sleep processes affect the consolidation of memories early in life. Characteristics of sleep spindles depend on the infant's developmental state and are known to be associated with trait-like factors such as intelligence. It is, however, largely unknown which state-like factors affect sleep spindles in infancy. By varying infants' wake experience in a within-subject design, here we provide evidence for a learning- and memory-dependent modulation of infant spindle activity. In a lexical-semantic learning session before a nap, 14- to 16-month-old infants were exposed to unknown words as labels for exemplars of unknown object categories. In a memory test on the next day, generalization to novel category exemplars was tested. In a nonlearning control session preceding a nap on another day, the same infants heard known words as labels for exemplars of already known categories. Central-parietal fast sleep spindles increased after the encoding of unknown object-word pairings compared to known pairings, evidencing that an infant's spindle activity varies depending on its prior knowledge for newly encoded information. Correlations suggest that enhanced spindle activity was particularly triggered, when similar unknown pairings were not generalized immediately during encoding. The spindle increase triggered by previously not generalized object-word pairings, moreover, boosted the formation of generalized memories for these pairings. Overall, the results provide first evidence for a fine-tuned regulation of infant sleep quality according to current consolidation requirements, which improves the infant long-term memory for new experiences.

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“…There is a small reduction in REM sleep in early- and mid-adulthood. Older age is associated with earlier sleep onset and poorer sleep quality (see [ 56 ]; see also [ 58 ] for summary of ontogeny of functions at specific developmental stages).…”

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Romantic Love and Sleep Variations: Potential Proximate Mechanisms and Evolutionary Functions

Bode

Kuula

2021

Biology

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This article provides a narrative review of what is known about romantic love and sleep variations and provides possible explanations for the association. Romantic love and sleep are described using a comprehensive, unifying framework advocated by Tinbergen. We summarise the findings of studies investigating the relationship between romantic love and sleep. Sleep variations are associated with romantic love in adolescents and young adults. We then detail some proximate mechanisms that may contribute to sleep variations in people experiencing romantic love before considering potential evolutionary functions of sleep variations in people experiencing romantic love. The relationship between symptoms of psychopathology and sleep variations in people experiencing romantic love is described. With the current state of knowledge, it is not possible to determine whether sleep variations associated with romantic love are adaptations or by-products of romantic love. We conclude by proposing areas for future research.

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Ontogeny of Sleep and Its Functions in Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence

Cited by 16 publications

References 178 publications

Caffeine preserves quiet sleep in preterm neonates

Caffeine preserves quiet sleep in preterm neonates

The reciprocal relation between sleep and memory in infancy: Memory‐dependent adjustment of sleep spindles and spindle‐dependent improvement of memories

Romantic Love and Sleep Variations: Potential Proximate Mechanisms and Evolutionary Functions

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