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Predictors of Clinical Pain in Fibromyalgia: Examining the Role of Sleep
Bidirectional interactions between circadian entrainment and cognitive performance
Subjective, anatomical, and functional nasal evaluation of patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome
Sleep disturbances and fatigue: independent predictors of sickness absence? A prospective study among 6538 employees
The role of presleep negative emotion in sleep physiology
Anderson RJ, McCrae CS, Staud R, Berry RB, Robinson ME.
Department of Clinical and Health...
Department of Clinical and Health...
Bidirectional interactions between circadian entrainment and cognitive performance
Gritton HJ, Kantorowski A, Sarter M, Lee TM.
Department of Psychology, University of...
Department of Psychology, University of...
Subjective, anatomical, and functional nasal evaluation of patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome
de Aguiar Vidigal T, Martinho Haddad FL, Gregório LC, Poyares D, Tufik S, Azeredo...
Sleep disturbances and fatigue: independent predictors of sickness absence? A prospective study among 6538 employees
Bültmann U, Nielsen MB, Madsen IE, Burr H, Rugulies R.
Department of Health Sciences,...
Department of Health Sciences,...
The role of presleep negative emotion in sleep physiology
Vandekerckhove M, Weiss R, Schotte C, Exadaktylos V, Haex B, Verbraecken J, Cluydts R....
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Sleep Patterns Are Linked to Academic Success
Prof. Ana Allen Gomes
Several experimental studies point to associations between sleep and performance of various cognitive activities that are intuitively linked to academic achievement. These include, for example, learning and memory consolidation. Accordingly, sleep restriction, poor quality of sleep, and late and irregular sleep schedules are expected to have an adverse effect on academic performance. Yet, very few studies assess the effects of sleep patterns on scholastic achievement by taking into consideration multiple potential predictors of academic outcomes. The present study took advantage of a university setting to analyze associations between sleep patterns and multiple measures of academic success and to determine which sleep patterns may serve as significant predictors of academic performance. Sleep phase, morning/evening preference, sleep deprivation, sleep quality and sleep irregularity were all found to be significantly associated with scholastic performance measures. Quantity and quality of sleep also emerged as significant predictors of the end-of-semester grades.
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