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ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2021

The Sensory Abnormality Mediated Partially the Efficacy of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation on Treating Comorbid Sleep Disorder in Autism Spectrum Disorder Children.

Lei Gao, Chen Wang, Xiao-Rong Song, Li Tian, Zhi-Yi Qu, Yu Han, Xin Zhang

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Article in Frontiers in psychiatry, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Lei GaoDepartment of Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health, School of Public Health, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China.
Chen WangDepartment of Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health, School of Public Health, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China.
Xiao-Rong SongDepartment of Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health, School of Public Health, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China.
Li TianDepartment of Cerebral Functional Therapy, Tianjin Anding Hospital (Tianjin Mental Health Center), Tianjin, China.
Zhi-Yi QuDepartment of Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health, School of Public Health, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China.
Yu HanDepartment of Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health, School of Public Health, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China.
Xin ZhangDepartment of Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health, School of Public Health, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China.
Tianjin Medical University · CNTianjin Anding Hospital · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sleep disorder emerges as a common comorbidity in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and the interaction between the core symptoms of ASD and its sleep disorder remains unclear. Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) was used on the bilateral dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) to investigate the efficacy of rTMS on the core symptoms of ASD and comorbid sleep problems as well as the mediation role of the ASD symptoms between rTMS intervention and sleep improvement. A total of 41 Chinese children with ASD and who met the criteria in the fifth edition of the American Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders were recruited, and 39 of them (mean age: 9.0 ± 4.4 years old; the male-female ratio was 3.9: 1) completed the study with the stimulating protocol of high frequency on the left DLPFC and low frequency on the right DLPFC. They were all assessed three times (before, at 4 weeks after, and at 8 weeks after the stimulation) by the Children's Sleep Habits Questionnaire (CSHQ), Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), Childhood Autism Rating Scale, Repetitive Behavior Questionnaire-2, and Short Sensory Profile (SSP). The repeated-measures ANOVA showed that the main effect of "intervention time" of CSHQ (

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autism spectrum disorder (ASD)Bayesian mediation analysisdorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC)repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS)sensory problemssleep disorders

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