Sleep architecture and emotional inhibition processing in adolescents hospitalized during a suicidal crisis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Suicide is the second leading cause of death in adolescents. Sleep disturbances could alter inhibitory processes and contribute to dangerous behaviors in this critical developmental period. Adolescents in suicidal crisis have been shown to have lighter sleep compared to healthy controls. Additionally, suicidal adolescents have lower neural resources mobilized by emotionally charged inhibition processing. The present exploratory study aimed to determine how sleep architecture in suicidal adolescents may relate to inhibition processing in response to emotional stimuli.

Methods

Ten adolescents between 12 and 17 years of age with a diagnosis of major depressive disorder and who attempted suicide were recruited while hospitalized for a suicidal crisis in a psychiatric

SUBMITTER: Tavakoli P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9441873 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature