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‘Self‐reported sleep patterns and quality amongst adolescents: cross‐sectional and prospective associations with anxiety and depression’ – video abstract
Video abstract from Dr. Faith Orchard on her paper in JCPP on ‘Self‐reported sleep patterns and quality amongst adolescents: cross‐sectional and prospective associations with anxiety and depression’.
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Sleep Edition
This edition of The Bridge concentrates on sleep, a poignant reminder that I am editing this on a 6am train to London having shortened my own sleep cycle and feeling rather sleep deprived on this dark winter morning.
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Chronotype and Depression in Adolescence
We know that there is a bidirectional association between sleep duration/quality and depressive symptoms in youth. In adult populations depressive symptoms and circadian rhythms (sleep chronotype) have also been linked. In this paper, we established an association between chronotype and depressive symptoms in middle adolescence, independently of poor sleep and prior mental health difficulties.
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More frequent naps are associated with lower cognitive development in a cohort of 8–38-month-old children, during the Covid-19 pandemic
Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – ‘Here we investigate sleep patterns in association with two measures of cognitive ability, vocabulary size, measured with the Oxford-Communicative Development Inventory and cognitive executive functions (EF), measured with the Early EF Questionnaire, in a cohort of 8–38-month-olds’. Teodora Gliga (pic) et al.
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Sub-types of insomnia in adolescents: Insights from a quantitative/molecular twin study
Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – ‘Insomnia with short sleep duration has been postulated as more severe than that accompanied by normal/long sleep length. While the short duration subtype is considered to have greater genetic influence than the other subtype, no studies have addressed this question’. Juan J. Madrid-Valero (pic) et al.
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Melatonin use and the risk of self-harm and unintentional injuries in youths with and without psychiatric disorders
Open Access paper from the JCPP – ‘This study investigated whether melatonin, which is the most common medication for sleep disturbances in youth in Sweden, is associated with a decreased risk of injury. Analyses were stratified by sex, injury type, psychiatric comorbidities and age at melatonin-treatment initiation’. Marica Leone (pic) et al.
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Dr. Alice M. Gregory
Alice Gregory is a psychologist at Royal Holloway, University of London. Alice first developed an interest in sleep research as an undergraduate student of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford and went on to complete her PhD at the Social, Genetic, Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, King’s College, London.
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JCPP Editorial: Volume 61, Issue 10, October 2020
“Is sleep the red flag to psychopathology’s bull?” by Michael Gradisar, Alice M. Gregory, Liat Tikotzky
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Chronotype and Depressive Symptoms in Adolescence
In this Papers Podcast, Dimitris Tsomokos discusses his JCPP Advances paper ‘Chronotype and depression in adolescence: Results from a UK birth cohort study’. Dimitris is the first author of the paper. There is an overview of the paper, methodology, key findings, and implications for practice.
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Predicating Responses to Insomnia Prevention Programme in Subgroups of At-Risk Adolescents
In this Papers Podcast, Dr. Si-Jing Chen discusses her JCPP paper ‘Subtyping at-risk adolescents for predicting response toward insomnia prevention program’. Si-Jing is the first author of the paper. There is an overview of the paper, methodology, key findings, and implications for practice.
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