Trait-like characteristics of sleep EEG power spectra in adolescents across sleep opportunity manipulations.

Trait-like characteristics of sleep EEG power spectra in adolescents across sleep opportunity manipulations. J Sleep Res. 2019 Feb 06;:e12824 Authors: Ong JL, Lo JC, Patanaik A, Chee MWL Abstract The electroencephalographic power spectra of non-rapid eye movement sleep in adults demonstrate trait-like consistency within participants across multiple nights, even when prior sleep deprivation is present. Here, we examined the extent to which this finding applies to adolescents who are habitually sleep restricted on school-days and sleep longer on weekends. We evaluated 78 adolescents across three sleep restriction groups who underwent different permutations of adequate sleep (9 hr time-in-bed), sleep restriction (5 hr time-in-bed), afternoon naps (1 hr afternoon) and recovery sleep (9 hr time-in-bed) that simulate behaviour on school-days and weekends. The control group comprised a further 22 adolescents who had 9 hr of sleep opportunity each night. Intra-class correlation coefficients showed moderate to almost perfect within-subject stability in electroencephalographic power spectra across multiple nights in both sleep restriction and control groups, even when changes to sleep macrostructure were observed. While nocturnal intra-class correlation metrics were lower in the low-frequency and spindle frequency bins in the sleep restriction compared with the control group, hierarchical clustering measures could still identify mult...
Source: Journal of Sleep Research - Category: Sleep Medicine Authors: Tags: J Sleep Res Source Type: research