ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2022
Sleep Disturbances and Sensory Sensitivities Co-Vary in a Longitudinal Manner in Pre-School Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders.
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- Association Between Vitamins Related to Brain Development and Sleep in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders.Nature and science of sleep · 2026Article
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- Hypothalamic volume is associated with dysregulated sleep in autistic and non-autistic young children.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2025Article
- Associations between sleep problems, cortical morphometry, and structural brain network organization in preschool children with autism: a retrospective observational study.European journal of pediatrics · 2025Observational
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- What goes on when the lights go off? Using machine learning techniques to characterize a child's settling down period.Frontiers in network physiology · 2025Article
- Prenatal exposure to hypoxic risk conditions in autistic and neurotypical youth: Associated ventricular differences, sleep disturbance, and sensory processing.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2024Article
- How auditory processing influences the autistic profile: A review.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2024Review
- Sleep disturbances are associated with greater healthcare utilization in children with autism spectrum disorder.Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders · 2024Article
- Sleep disturbances are associated with irritability in ASD children with sensory sensitivities.Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders · 2023Article
- Neuronal gating of tactile input and sleep in 10-month-old infants at typical and elevated likelihood for autism spectrum disorder.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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Abstract
Previous research has demonstrated that sleep disturbances are positively correlated with sensory sensitivities in children with ASD. Most of these studies, however, were based on cross-sectional analyses, where the relationship across symptom domains was examined at a single time-point. Here, we examined the development of 103 pre-school children with ASD over a 1-3-year period. The results revealed that spontaneous longitudinal changes in sleep disturbances were specifically correlated with changes in sensory sensitivities and not with changes in other sensory processing domains nor with changes in core ASD symptoms. These finding demonstrate a consistent longitudinal relationship between sleep disturbances and sensory sensitivities, which suggests that these symptoms may be generated by common or interacting underlying physiological mechanisms.
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