ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2021
Subjective and Electroencephalographic Sleep Parameters in Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Systematic Review.
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- Effects of exercise on anxiety and psychiatric comorbidities in children with autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
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- Excitation/Inhibition Balance as a Mechanistic Link Between Sleep Disturbance and Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Bidirectional Framework.Alpha psychiatry · 2026Review
- Autism spectrum disorder across the lifespan: Dynamic symptom trajectories and multidimensional support framework.Molecular psychiatry · 2026Review
- Sleep and activity patterns in autism.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2026Article
- The irreplaceable role of sleep in building long-term memories: offline integration of free cortical units and its possible implication in autism.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Article
- Sleep Disturbances and Behavioral Problems in Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder-A Systematic Review.Clinics and practice · 2025Review
- Pre-sleep screen time and screen time addiction as shared determinants of poor sleep and obesity in adolescents aged 11-14 years in Scotland.BMC global and public health · 2025Article
- Excitatory/Inhibitory imbalance as a mechanism linking autism and sleep problems.Current opinion in neurobiology · 2025Review
- Sex differences in sleep deficits in mice with an autism-linked Shank3 mutation.Biology of sex differences · 2024Article
- A global transcriptional atlas of the effect of acute sleep deprivation in the mouse frontal cortex.iScience · 2024Article
- The role of sleep disturbances in the onset and maintenance of psychiatric disorders in childhood and adolescence: A review of subjective and polysomnographic findings.Current sleep medicine reports · 2024Article
- Sleep and Autism: Current Research, Clinical Assessment, and Treatment Strategies.Focus (American Psychiatric Publishing) · 2024Article
- Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Abnormalities of Clinical EEG: A Qualitative Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- Stress in autism (STREAM): A study protocol on the role of circadian activity, sleep quality and sensory reactivity.PloS one · 2024Article
- Virtual environments as a novel and promising approach in (neuro)diagnosis and (neuro)therapy: a perspective on the example of autism spectrum disorder.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Article
- The role of vitamin D deficiency in the development of paediatric diseases.Annals of medicine · 2023Review
- The Complex Association between Sleep Quality, Psychological Wellbeing, and Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Childhood.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Critical periods and Autism Spectrum Disorders, a role for sleep.Neurobiology of sleep and circadian rhythms · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundSleep problems have commonly manifested in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) with a complex and multifactorial interaction between clinical and etiological components. These disorders are associated with functional impairment, and provoke significant physical and mental affliction. The purpose of this study is to update the existing literature about objective and subjective sleep parameters in children and adolescents with ASD, extrapolating information from polysomnography or sleep electroencephalography, and sleep related questionnaires.
methodsWe have conducted a systematic review of case-control studies on this topic, performing a web-based search on PubMed, Scopus and the Web of Science databases according to the Preferred Reporting items for Systematic Review and Meta-analyses (PRISMA) guidelines.
resultsData collected from 20 survey result reports showed that children and adolescents with ASD experienced a higher rate of sleep abnormalities than in typically developing children. The macrostructural sleep parameters that were consistent with subjective parent reported measures unveil a greater percentage of nighttime signs of insomnia. Sleep microstructure patterns, in addition, pointed towards the bidirectional relationship between brain dysfunctions and sleep problems in children with ASD.
conclusionsToday's literature acknowledges that objective and subjective sleep difficulties are more often recognized in individuals with ASD, so clinicians should assess sleep quality in the ASD clinical population, taking into consideration the potential implications on treatment strategies. It would be worthwhile in future studies to examine how factors, such as age, cognitive level or ASD severity could be related to ASD sleep abnormalities. Future research should directly assess whether sleep alterations could represent a specific marker for atypical brain development in ASD.
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