Annotated Bibliography with Reflection

Annotated Bibliography and Reflection
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Patrick, Y., Lee, A., Raha, O., Pillai, K., Gupta, S., Sethi, S., ... & Moss, J. (2017). Effects of sleep deprivation on cognitive and physical performance in university students. Sleep and biological rhythms, 15(3), 217-225.
Purpose Statement: The study aims to investigate the effects of a night sleep deprivation among students on their cognitive and physical performance.
Summary Statement: The study reveals that acute sleep deprivation can have a negative effect on the physical but not cognitive abilities of young healthy university students.
Audience Statement: The study applies to the overall population ranging from students to sports people and all those who rely on reflexes to perform their duties.
Unique Feature Statement: Sleep deprivation had a special impact on the reaction time and vascular response among the subjects but showed no significant changes on other cognitive and cardiopulmonary measures.
Strength, Weakness, or Bias Statement: The main weakness of the study is that the researchers did not have control of the process because the participants undertook the sleep deprivation procedure in an environment of their choice, rather than in supervised settings. Thus, the researchers relied on self-reported sleep deprivation, which was subject to distortion of the details. Consequently, the limitation reduced the generalizability of the findings.
Reflective Statement: The findings show that sleep deprivation mainly affects the postexercise blood pressure and reaction time among the students. These changes can be attributed to the neuroendocrine changes and downregulation in the brain’s motor areas. Therefore, sports people and even those...