Developmental pathways towards mood disorders in adult life: Is there a role for sleep disturbances?

Palagini, Laura; Domschke, Katharina; Benedetti, Francesco; Foster, Russell G.; Wulff, Katharina; Riemann, Dieter

doi:10.1016/j.jad.2018.09.011

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“…It has been suggested, that individuals with poststroke depressive symptoms are more likely to experience disturbed sleep early post-stroke [68]. This is line with evidence suggesting that over 40% of individuals with insomnia have a psychiatric disorder [69] and the argument that sleep disturbances and insomnia may facilitate the onset of affective disorders [70].…”

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Incidence and prevalence of post-stroke insomnia: A systematic review and meta-analysis

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Grant

et al. 2020

Sleep Medicine Reviews

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Incidence and prevalence of post-stroke insomnia: A systematic review and meta-analysis

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Grant

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Sleep Medicine Reviews

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“…Sleep in childhood has been connected to later health problems including obesity, cognitive problems, and mental health problems (Kurth, Olini, Huber, & LeBourgeois, 2015;Palagini et al, 2019). Sleep has been identified as one of three lifestyle behaviours that potentially predispose children to the development of non-communicable diseases (Wu et al, 2016), and has been related to metabolic disease in children and adults (Schmid, Hallschmid, & Schultes, 2015).…”

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“…Continued research has linked early‐life adversity with numerous negative health consequences in adulthood, including shorter sleeping periods, less physical activity, poorer diet, more depressive symptoms, and increased rates of substance use (e.g., Felitti et al ., ; Windle et al ., ). Further, it is proposed that early‐life stress impacts sleep, which then may contribute to mental health problems later in life (Palagini et al ., ), suggesting a lifelong trajectory of poor consequences stemming from negative early‐life experiences.…”

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“…Such promotive factors may have direct effects on child health, but also may serve as a source of resilience, by buffering the detrimental effects of early adversity (Masten, 2014). A host of mechanisms are likely to account for the links between early-life experiences and subsequent child health outcomes, but one key potential pathway is sleep, a restorative bioregulatory process that occupies roughly one third of daily life (Mathur et al, 2018;Palagini et al, 2019). Many children and adolescents worldwide do not meet the recommended hours of sleep, which are 9-11 and 8-10 hr for school-aged children and adolescents, respectively (Gradisar, Gardner, & Dohnt, 2011;National Sleep Foundation, 2014), suggesting the importance of identifying factors that impact sleep in childhood, including the lasting influence of the early environment.…”

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Early parental positive personality and stress: Longitudinal associations with children's sleep

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British J Health Psychol

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Objectives The current study examined the influence of early parental stress and positive parent personality during infancy on sleep in middle childhood. Further, the role of positive parent personality as a buffer of the association between parental stress and sleep was considered. Methods Participants included 381 twins and their primary caregivers who were recruited from birth records in the United States. Primary caregivers completed survey assessments via phone when twins were 12 and 30 months of age to assess multiple dimensions of parental stress and positive parent personality. Approximately 6 years later (M = 5.78, SD = 0.42), twins participated in an intensive assessment that included wearing actigraph watches to provide an objective measurement of sleep, while primary caregivers completed daily diaries regarding twins' sleep. Results Positive parent personality was associated prospectively with longer actigraphy sleep duration and higher parent‐reported sleep quality/daytime functioning. Parental stress was associated prospectively with greater variability in sleep duration. Positive parent personality moderated the parental stress – sleep‐timing relation, such that greater parental stress was associated with a later midpoint of the sleep period only for children with parents low on positive personality (e.g., low optimism). All other findings were non‐significant. Conclusions Findings suggest that both positive attributes and stress may influence sleep in middle childhood and that low parent positive personality may exacerbate associations between parental stress and later timing of sleep periods in children. Early interventions to promote healthy sleeping may consider focusing on decreasing parental stress and increasing parental empathy and optimism as early as infancy. What is already known on this subject? Early‐life experiences, especially adversity, have been related to health outcomes among adults and children, such that negative experiences are associated with poor health outcomes. Poor sleep (e.g., short duration, poor quality) among children is associated with negative outcomes including poorer cognitive performance and higher adiposity. What does this study add? This study used a prospective design to understand relations between early parent‐related factors and child sleep. Early parental stress and positive parent personality were associated with objective sleep quality. Positive parent personality during infancy may have promotive/protective influences on sleep later in childhood.

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“…This idea has been previously developed for other psychiatric disorders. In fact, extensive data have shown that poor sleep during childhood and adolescence is related to alterations in brain development (39, 44, 47–53) to problems in cognitive, attentional, emotional, and behavioral areas, including risk-taking and aggression; and to psychiatric conditions such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and mood disorders (54). Indeed, we may also hypothesize that alteration in brain development related to ASD may contribute to sleep disturbances within a self-reinforcing loop.…”

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Systematic Review of Sleep Disturbances and Circadian Sleep Desynchronization in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Toward an Integrative Model of a Self-Reinforcing Loop

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Background: A compelling number of studies, conducted in both children and adults, have reported an association between sleep disturbances/circadian sleep alterations and autism spectrum disorder (ASD); however, the data are sparse and the nature of this link is still unclear. The present review aimed to systematically collect the literature data relevant on sleep disturbances and circadian sleep dysrhythmicity related to ASD across all ages and to provide an integrative theoretical framework of their association. Methods: A systematic review of the MEDLINE, PubMed, and Cochrane databases was conducted from November 2018 to February 2019. The search strategies used were MeSH headings and keywords for “sleep–wake circadian rhythms” OR “circadian sleep disorders” OR “sleep–wake pattern” OR “sleep disorders” OR “melatonin” AND “autism spectrum disorder” OR “autism”. Results: One hundred and three studies were identified, 15 regarded circadian sleep dysrhythmicity, 74 regarded sleep disturbances, and 17 regarded melatonin alterations in children and adults with ASD. Our findings suggested that autistic subjects frequently present sleep disturbances in particular short sleep duration, low sleep quality/efficiency, and circadian sleep desynchronization such as delayed phases and/or eveningness. Sleep disturbances and circadian sleep alterations have been related to the severity of autistic symptoms. Genetic studies have shown polymorphisms in circadian CLOCK genes and in genes involved in melatonin pathways in subjects with ASD. Conclusions: Sleep disturbances and circadian sleep alterations are frequent in subjects with autistic symptoms. These subjects have shown polymorphisms in clock genes expression and in genes involved in melatonin production. The impairment of circadian sleep regulation may increase the individual’s vulnerability to develop symptoms of ASD by altering the sleep regulation in toto , which plays a key role in normal brain development. Even though controversies and “research gaps” are present in literature at this point, we may hypothesize a bidirectional relation between circadian sleep dysfunction and ASD. In particular, circadian sleep dysrhythmicity may predispose to develop ASD symptoms and vice versa within a self-reinforcing feedback loop. By targeting sleep disturbances and circadian sleep dysrhythmicity, we may improve treatment strategies for both children and adults with ASD.

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Developmental pathways towards mood disorders in adult life: Is there a role for sleep disturbances?

Cited by 39 publications

References 209 publications

Incidence and prevalence of post-stroke insomnia: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Incidence and prevalence of post-stroke insomnia: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Early parental positive personality and stress: Longitudinal associations with children's sleep

Systematic Review of Sleep Disturbances and Circadian Sleep Desynchronization in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Toward an Integrative Model of a Self-Reinforcing Loop

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