REM theta activity enhances inhibitory control in typically developing children but not children with ADHD symptoms.

ABSTRACT: Sleep disturbances impair cognitive functioning in typically developing populations. Children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a disorder characterized by impaired inhibitory control and attention, commonly experience sleep disturbances. Whether inhibitory impairments are related to sleep deficits in children with ADHD is unknown. Children with ADHD (n = 18; M _age = 6.70 years) and typically developing controls (n = 15; M _age = 6.73 years) completed a Go/No-Go task to measure inhibitory control and sustained attention before and after polysomnography-monitored overnight sleep. Inhibitory control and sustained attention were improved following overnight sleep in typically developing children. Moreover, morning inhibitory control was positively corr

SUBMITTER: Cremone A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5393070 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature