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The association between cortical gyrification and sleep in adolescents and young adults.

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Study objectives

Healthy sleep is important for adolescent neurodevelopment, and relationships between brain structure and sleep can vary in strength over this maturational window. Although cortical gyrification is increasingly considered a useful index for understanding cognitive and emotional outcomes in adolescence, and sleep is also a strong predictor of such outcomes, we know relatively little about associations between cortical gyrification and sleep.

Methods

Using Local gyrification index (lGI) of 34 bilateral brain regions and regularized regression for feature selection, we examined gyrification-sleep relationships in the Neuroimaging and Pediatric Sleep databank (252 participants; 9-26 years; 58.3% female) and identified developmentally invariant (stable across age) or developmentally specific (observed only during discrete age intervals) brain-sleep associations. Naturalistic sleep characteristics (duration, timing, continuity, and regularity) were estimated from wrist actigraphy.

Results

For most brain regions, greater lGI was associated with longer sleep duration, earlier sleep timing, lower variability in sleep regularity, and shorter time awake after sleep onset. lGI in frontoparietal network regions showed associations with sleep patterns that were stable across age. However, in default mode network regions, lGI was only associated with sleep patterns from late childhood through early-to-mid adolescence, a period of vulnerability for mental health disorders.

Conclusions

We detected both developmentally invariant and developmentally specific ties between local gyrification and naturalistic sleep patterns. Default mode network regions may be particularly susceptible to interventions promoting more optimal sleep during childhood and adolescence.

SUBMITTER: Santos JPL

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10516006 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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The association between cortical gyrification and sleep in adolescents and young adults.

Santos João Paulo Lima JPL Hayes Rebecca R Franzen Peter L PL Goldstein Tina R TR Hasler Brant P BP Buysse Daniel J DJ Siegle Greg J GJ Dahl Ronald E RE Forbes Erika E EE Ladouceur Cecile D CD McMakin Dana L DL Ryan Neal D ND Silk Jennifer S JS Jalbrzikowski Maria M Soehner Adriane M AM

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 20230916

<h4>Study objectives</h4>Healthy sleep is important for adolescent neurodevelopment, and relationships between brain structure and sleep can vary in strength over this maturational window. Although cortical gyrification is increasingly considered a useful index for understanding cognitive and emotional outcomes in adolescence, and sleep is also a strong predictor of such outcomes, we know relatively little about associations between cortical gyrification and sleep.<h4>Methods</h4>Using Local gyr ...[more]

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