The Relationship of Sleep Deprivation with the Poor Academic Performance and Adolescents’ Mental Health

Abstract

Adolescent mental health problems have a proportion of up to 16% of the total burden of disease for people aged 10-19 years in the world. Various studies suggest that lack of sleep in adolescents can affect poor academic performance and the emergence of mental health problems such as depression. This article is intended to review the relationship between lack of sleep in adolescents with poor academic performance and the emergence of mental issues from a neuroscience perspective. We conducted a literature review regarding sleep deprivation and physiological phenomena that occur in the adolescent brain, which is then associated with mental health problems and decreased academic performance. At the end, we propose several solutions that can be used as policy guidelines to improve adolescent academic performance and maintain adolescent mental health.