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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.