Longitudinal associations between adolescent catch-up sleep, white-matter maturation and internalizing problems.

ABSTRACT: Sleep is an important contributor for neural maturation and emotion regulation during adolescence, with long-term effects on a range of white matter tracts implicated in affective processing in at-risk populations. We investigated the effects of adolescent sleep patterns on longitudinal changes in white matter development and whether this is related to the emergence of emotional (internalizing) problems. Sleep patterns and internalizing problems were assessed using self-report questionnaires in adolescents recruited in the general population followed up from age 14-19 years (N = 111 White matter structure was measured using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and estimated using fractional anisotropy (FA). We found that longitudinal increases in time in bed (TIB) on weekends and increases in TI

SUBMITTER: Guldner S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9841167 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature