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Developmental trajectories of sleep EEG in neurodevelopmental disorders: Does sex matter?

Nataliia Kozhemiako, Shaun M. Purcell
FENS Forum 2024(2024)
Messe Wien Exhibition & Congress Center, Vienna, Austria

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FENS Forum 2024

Messe Wien Exhibition & Congress Center, Vienna, Austria

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Authors & Affiliations

Nataliia Kozhemiako, Shaun M. Purcell

Abstract

We aimed to examine the effect of sex on maturational changes in sleep neurophysiology indexed by polysomnography in children with neurodevelopmental disorders(NDD) compared to non-NDD individuals. We utilized whole-night polysomnography data from a large pediatric (2.5 to 17.5 years) sample available at the National Sleep Research Resource. Using ICD codes, we defined the NDD subsets for ASD(N=196), ADHD(N=525), intellectual disabilities(ID, N=167), and a no-NDD sample(N=1523). The open-source package Luna was used to derive multiple sleep features, including sleep spindles, slow oscillations(SO), and spectral power. Linear regression models were employed to investigate sex-by-age interaction. Out of 351 EEG features, 31% expressed nominally significant sex-by-age interaction in the non-NDD cohort. For example, during the N3 stage, the age-related increase in absolute sigma power was steeper in boys(p<0.001 across all channels), while girls displayed a steeper decline in beta power(p<0.003 across all channels). In the ADHD group, the majority of significant sex-by-age interactions were observed in power and were congruent in directions to the non-NDD group. In contrast, distinct developmental trajectories between boys and girls with ASD or ID samples were observed for sleep features that did not present significant sex-by-age effects in the non-NDD group and mostly included spindle and SO-spindle coupling metrics.Our findings suggest that multiple sleep EEG metrics follow distinctive developmental trajectories in boys and girls without NDDs. The NDD cohorts also exhibit sex-specific developmental patterns of sleep features often not present in the typical population which could potentially relate to disorder-relevant factors including symptom manifestation or disorder progression.

Unique ID: fens-24/developmental-trajectories-sleep-neurodevelopmental-b86f6506