Relationships between autistic traits, insufficient sleep, and real-world executive functions in children: a mediation analysis of a national epidemiological survey.

CONCLUSIONS: Our novel findings underscore the importance of sleep and autistic traits in executive functions and suggest potential mechanisms that may underlie the observed correlational structure among autistic behaviors, sleep deficits, and low executive function performance. PMID: 31769374 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31769374?dopt=Abstract

Source: Psychological Medicine - November 25, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Tsai TH, Chen YL, Gau SS Tags: Psychol Med Source Type: research