Effects of Duration and Midpoint of Sleep on Corticolimbic Circuitry in Youth.

ABSTRACT: Adequate sleep is essential for cognitive and emotion-related functioning, and 9 to 12 hr of sleep is recommended for children ages 6 to 12 years and 8 to 10 hr for children ages 13 to 18 years. However, national survey data indicate that older youth sleep for fewer hours and fall asleep later than younger youth. This shift in sleep duration and timing corresponds with a sharp increase in onset of emotion-related problems (e.g., anxiety, depression) during adolescence. Given that both sleep duration and timing have been linked to emotion-related outcomes, the present study tests the effects of sleep duration and timing, and their interaction, on resting-state functional connectivity (RS-FC) of corticolimbic emotion-related neural circuitry in children and adolescents. A total of 63 childre

SUBMITTER: Hehr A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6739076 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature