A regular daily routine leads to sufficient sleep and contributes to brain development
Posted on 02.18.2024 at 3.05pm Posted on 02.18.2024 at 3.05pm Modified on 02.18.2024 at 08.37am Views 22
Research has shown that maintaining a regular daily routine improves a child’s sleep and ultimately helps brain development. [사진=게티이미지뱅크]It’s not easy to maintain a regular routine with young children. However, research has shown that maintaining a regular routine, such as regular bedtimes or eating together as a family, improves a child’s sleep and ultimately helps brain development.
Researchers at Colorado State University in the US recently published in the neuroscience and psychiatry journal Brain and Behavior that they obtained these results by analyzing data from 94 children aged 5 to 9 from various living environments.
The researchers looked closely at the children’s brain structures through MRI scans and asked parents questions about their children’s sleep times and family routines. Questions about family routine included: △Does the child do the same thing every morning after waking up? △Do parents regularly play with the child after work? △Does the parent regularly read books or tell stories to the child? △Do you regularly read books or tell stories to your child? does the child do the same? This includes whether you go to bed at the same time every day and whether your family eats together at the same time every evening.
As a result of the analysis, it emerged that in families where fewer activities that were part of the family routine took place, the child’s sleep time during the week was shorter. And shorter sleep time has been associated with changes in the baby’s brain structure. Specifically, children with shorter sleep duration were more likely to have finer brain regions associated with language, behavioral control, and sensory perception, and smaller brain regions associated with emotional processing.
Dr Emily Mertz, who led the study, said: “Lower sleep time was significantly associated with decreased cortical thickness in the frontal, temporal and parietal lobes and smaller volume of the amygdala, which is important for emotional processing”. “The results of this study show that sleep deprivation affects not only brain structure, but also brain structure.” “It suggests that it is also related to the function of the child’s emotional processing brain circuitry.”
Meanwhile, children from low-income families and families with parents with low levels of education were more likely to be sleep deprived, according to the researchers. Dr Mertz said: “This could mean that socioeconomic disadvantage disrupts the coherence of family routines, potentially increasing children’s stress and reducing their sleep time, impacting brain development.”
“While most research on sleep development has focused on adolescents, this study highlights the need to assess and support the sleep health of preadolescent children,” he added.
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