Ep121 - Teenager Sleep and Sleep Health: How Sleep Changes Around Teenagers - With Dr. Baker

OVERVIEW

Sleep is important for people of any age. For teens though, mental, physical and social development requires quality sleep. In these formative years, sleep is definitely essential as it plays a major role to allow teens to be at their best.

In today's episode, Dr. Fiona Baker continues to discuss sleep patterns and how it changes during teenage life as teenagers have their own unique challenges and sleep disorders from internal and external factors that may affect them. Let's dive in and learn from the expert!

Fiona Baker, Ph.D. is the Director of Center for Health Sciences at SRI International, which she joined in 2005. She focuses on understanding the interplay between sleep physiology and human health across the lifespan. Baker is a world expert on issues of sleep in women. Her areas of research include sleep EEG, sex differences in sleep, sleep in menopause, relationships between sleep and cardiovascular functioning, and interactions between brain development, sleep, and behaviors such as alcohol use, across adolescence.

Dr. Baker has published more than 100 scientific papers on issues of sleep in women in the context of reproductive stages; her research has advanced understanding of insomnia that develops during the menopausal transition and revealed interactions between the female reproductive system and sleep and circadian regulatory systems.

WHAT WILL WE LEARN

01:18 - Teenager sleep patterns
02:53 - Differences in sleep with teenage gender
03:16 - Insomnia is more prevalent in teenage girls
05:06 - Allowing sleep preparation before going to sleep
08:17 - Afternoon naps as a strategy for time management
11:30 - Considering a family device protocol before going to bed
13:15 - The effect of pandemic and how family support system works
16:20 - Depression and poor sleep disorder
17:22 - CBTI and other sleep treatment options for teenagers
19:21 - Sleep apnea and its prevalence in women
20:46 - Young women’s reproductive cycles can disturb sleep

RESOURCES

Dr. Fiona Baker - Publications
Dr. Fiona Baker - SRI
Research
- Alzueta, E., Perrin, P., Baker, F. C., Caffarra, S., Ramos‐Usuga, D., Yuksel, D., & Arango‐Lasprilla, J. C. (2021). How the COVID‐19 pandemic has changed our lives: A study of psychological correlates across 59 countries. Journal of clinical psychology, 77(3), 556-570.
- Kiss, O., Alzueta, E., Yuksel, D., Pohl, K. M., de Zambotti, M., Műller-Oehring, E. M., ... & Baker, F. C. (2022). The Pandemic's Toll on Young Adolescents: Prevention and Intervention Targets to Preserve Their Mental Health. Journal of Adolescent Health.
- https://nida.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/2022/01/social-connectedness-sleep-and-physical-activity-associated-with-better-mental-health-among-youth-during-the-covid-19-pandemic
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