Does shorter duration and lower quality sleep impair developing functional brain networks in early adolescence?
Unhealthy sleep in early adolescence may impair neural information processing and integration, potentially leading to cognitive deficits, with notable racial disparities in these effects.
< 0.05). These widespread effects, many of which were body mass index-independent, suggest that unhealthy sleep in early adolescence may impair neural information processing and integration across incompletely developed networks, potentially leading to deficits in their cognitive correlates, including attention, reward, emotion processing and regulation, memory, and executive control. Shorter sleep duration, frequent snoring, difficulty waking up, and daytime sleepiness had additional detrimental network effects in nonwhite participants, indicating racial disparities in the influence of sleep metrics.
Brooks et al. (Tue,) studied this question.