Caffeine Consuming Children and Adolescents Show Altered Sleep Behavior and Deep Sleep
Aepli A, Kurth S, Tesler N, Jenni OG, Huber R
Brain sciences · 36 citations
How it was studied
- Design
- Cross-sectional study (classified by our AI screen)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- Health markers and function
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Independent funding
- Government
- National Science Foundation
- Government
- Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
- University or hospital
- Universität Zürich
- Nonprofit
- EMDO Stiftung
- Government
- Swiss National Science Foundation
- Grants
- Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (147180); Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (114923); Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (138801)
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Publication
- Published
- 2015-10-15 · Brain Sci · vol. 5 · issue 4 · pp. 441–455
- Publisher
- Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
- Cited
- 69 citations · more than 81% of similar papers · 1.6× the field average
- References
- 57 works
- Access
- Open access (journal) · CC-BY
- Research areas
- Sleep and Wakefulness Research · Sleep and related disorders · Circadian rhythm and melatonin
- Keywords
- Caffeine, Sleep (system call), Morning, Slow-wave sleep, Electroencephalography, Psychology, Sleep deprivation, Circadian rhythm, Audiology, Sleep restriction, Medicine, Anesthesia, Developmental psychology, Psychiatry, Internal medicine, Neuroscience
5 authors
From CH, US
- Andrina AepliUniversity Children's Hospital Zurich
- Salomé KurthUniversity of Colorado Boulder
- Noemi TeslerUniversity Children's Hospital Zurich
- Oskar G. JenniUniversity of Zurich; Swiss Integrative Center for Human Health; University Children's Hospital Zurich
- Reto Huber · correspondingUniversity of Zurich; Swiss Integrative Center for Human Health; University Children's Hospital Zurich
Abstract
Caffeine is the most commonly ingested psychoactive drug worldwide with increasing consumption rates among young individuals. While caffeine leads to decreased sleep quality in adults, studies investigating how caffeine consumption affects children's and adolescents' sleep remain scarce. We explored the effects of regular caffeine consumption on sleep behavior and the sleep electroencephalogram (EEG) in children and adolescents (10-16 years). While later habitual bedtimes (Caffeine 23:14 ± 11.4, Controls 22:17 ± 15.4) and less time in bed were found in caffeine consumers compared to the control group (Caffeine 08:10 ± 13.3, Controls 09:03 ± 16.1), morning tiredness was unaffected. Furthermore, caffeine consumers exhibited reduced sleep EEG slow-wave activity (SWA, 1-4.5 Hz) at the beginning of the night compared to controls (20% ± 9% average reduction across all electrodes and subjects). Comparable reductions were found for alpha activity (8.25-9.75 Hz). These effects, however, disappeared in the morning hours. Our findings suggest that caffeine consumption in adolescents may lead to later bedtimes and reduced SWA, a well-established marker of sleep depth. Because deep sleep is involved in recovery processes during sleep, further research is needed to understand whether a caffeine-induced loss of sleep depth interacts with neuronal network refinement processes that occur during the sensitive period of adolescent development.
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