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Annotated Bibliography

How does Sleep Deprivation affect the Brain and Body?

Jenny Nguyen

Professor Malcolm Campbell

UWRT 1103

March 12, 2015

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Annotated Bibliography

Bianchi, Matt T. Sleep Deprivation and Disease: Effects on the Body, Brain and

Behavior. 2014.

This first source is an informative, academic book founded in the Atkins Building

that covers a wide range of sleep deprivation and the affects on the body in many

different aspects. My interest will be on few selected chapters that covers sleep

deprivation and cognitive performance, as well as sleep deprivation and

metabolism, which also covers the cardiovascular system. In these chapters, it

goes in depth with our sleepless society. Our society is a working society, with

many jobs that require a great investment of time, which results in being sleep

deprived. Sleep loss affects our cognitive performance. The words cognitive

performance covers a great deal of brain functions, including alertness, sensory

perception, emotions, learning, memory, etc. The chapter that covers metabolism

presents scientific experiments and studies on how sleep lose relates to obesity,

diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. This sources shows credibility and

reliability overall because it was a published book and available through libraries.

As a researcher interested in this topic, this source is written for researchers to

gather informative facts and explanations. This source goes more in depth with

details and explanations compared to the other chosen sources. It also provides

plentiful information on body systems I am focusing on and will be very useful

for my project.

Fryer, Bronwyn. "Sleep Deficit: The Performance Killer." Harvard Business Review, 1

Oct. 2006. Web. 9 Mar. 2015.

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This article from the Harvard Business Review online focuses on sleep

deprivation in workers and how it affects them. Different scenarios on different

workers that receive minimal sleep were presented to argue a main point on how

sleep deprivation affects them, their business, their companies, and the general

public overall. Credible sources and evidence from doctors were used, which also

includes their background information. The author argues that many large

business executives with long work hours pose a threat to their wellbeing because

of sleep deprivation. In fact, the author is more argumentative in this article,

emphasizing the point that many automobile and work related accidents are the

result of sleep deprivation. Sleepiness is out of our control. When the urge to

sleep is high enough, our brain transmitters and neurons fire up the sleep switch

whether we are ready to sleep or not. This is why we are drowsy and the main

reason why drivers fall asleep at the wheel and never remember doing so. This

articles splits into four major parts, each telling why sleep deprivation impacts our

cognitive performance. The author provides how sleep deprivation affects us

when we are older, which is not presented in the other sources Ive chosen. All

factual information is backed up by evidence, which makes this source credible.

Many articles usually present concise factual information, which makes gathering

more information easier, so therefore this source will be thoroughly used.

Maxon, Seth. "How Sleep Deprivation Decays the Mind and Body." The Atlantic. 30

Dec. 2013. Web. 9 Mar. 2015.

This article is from The Atlantic, which is written in first person where the

narrator actually recounts his experience with sleep deprivation as an experiment

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when he was 18. He stayed up for at least four consecutive days before collapsing

and waking up in a hospital days later. This article shows biological problems and

illnesses associated with sleep deprivation by citing quotes and sources from sleep

specialists, professors, doctors, psychiatrists, etc. The author parallels his

experience with factual information from different sources from specialists for

evidence. Different study cases were presented on sleep deprivation in rats and

even disputes of how sleep deprivation actually kills someone. A doctors

anecdote of how he experienced sleep deprivation from over working was also

included to show hallucinations are very real when you are sleep deprived. This

article also examines the big mystery behind sleep. Why do we sleep and why do

we need sleep? Facts are presented on how sleep loss can throw off our body

clock, body systems; impair the brains ability to regulated hormones, and how it

affects every cell in our body. Theres a balance of loss and recovery time the

body experiences, but in todays society, work and school becomes a major factor

is total sleep loss that cannot be retained, thus result in sleep debt which results

in social jetlag. This describes poor concentration and reaction times. Every

piece of information is cited and quoted from a doctor or professor with their

background information which gives this source more credibility and provides an

excellent source overall.

Sorajja, Paul, Alfred Valles, Ryan Lennon, Charanjit Rihal, David Holmes, and Malcolm

Bell. "Sleep Deprivation and the Hazard of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention."

Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 59.13 (2012). Print.

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This source is an issue from the Journal of the American College of Cardiology

founded in Atkins Library. It has three main focuses on sleep deprivation, but I

will mostly look into how sleep deprivation affects the body, rather than the brain

this time. I will be focusing on two of the three articles. This academic source

tells us that sleep deprivation can harm the immune, inflammatory and

cardiovascular system over time. This is the main focus, or the main argument

that is presented. This source covers how continuous reduced sleep affects our

health, and how night-shift workers are affected. It covers problems with

insufficient time recovery for loss of sleep and the affects of how our body

deteriorates over the years. Because this source is an issue written from doctors

and founded in Atkins Library for researchers, it seems mostly likely a reliable

source to use. This source can be helpful with useful information on sleep

deprivation and our body systems rather than just the brain. It covers different

aspects of my topic.