Investigating the association between sleep quality and diffusion-derived structural integrity of white matter in early adolescence |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Youth Mental Health Team, Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia;2. Sunshine Coast Mind and Neuroscience Thompson Institute, University of the Sunshine Coast, Birtinya, QLD, Australia;3. Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA;4. Brain and Mental Health Laboratory, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia;5. School of Medicine, University of Notre Dame, Sydney, NSW, Australia;1. Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Lab, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, USA;2. Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA;3. Department of Psychiatry, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA |
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| Abstract: | IntroductionPoor sleep quality has been linked to reduced neural connectivity through decreased white matter (WM) structural integrity. WM tract development has been shown to continue throughout adolescence with studies reporting positive correlations between diffusion-derived estimates of structural integrity and reduced sleep quality in adult samples. Few studies have investigated this relationship exclusively within a sample of young adolescents.MethodsN = 51 participants aged 12 years (M = 151.5 months, SD = 4 months) completed a self-report questionnaire which included the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and underwent Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) as part of their baseline assessment in the Longitudinal Adolescent Brain Study (LABS) being undertaken in Queensland, Australia. Fractional anisotropy (FA) were extracted using Tract-Based Spatial Statistics (TBSS) to investigate associations between sleep quality and WM integrity across the brain.ResultsSignificant correlations were found between the posterior limb of the internal capsule and the PSQI total sleep quality and sleep latency scores. There was also a significant difference in sleep duration between male and female participants.ConclusionThese findings provide an important insight of the impact that sleep may have on early adolescent WM development. Ongoing longitudinal assessment of sleep on WM development across adolescence is likely to provide further important information about how WM maturation relates to variations in sleep quality as circadian rhythm changes occur during middle and late adolescence. |
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| Keywords: | Adolescent sleep White matter development Diffusion tensor imaging |
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