Sleep apnea reduces the amount of computational deep sleep in the right frontopolar area in school-aged children

Publication date: Available online 3 March 2016
Source:Clinical Neurophysiology
Author(s): Marjukka Jussila, Outi Saarenpää-Heikkilä, Eero Huupponen, Anna-Maria Lapinlampi, Juha Penttala, Sari-Leena Himanen
ObjectiveObstructive sleep apnea (OSA) causes different symptoms in children, even though polysomnographic parameters that assess sleep quality may remain normal. Our spectral analysis of NREM sleep revealed local deep sleep reductions in adult OSA patients. We hypothesize that our method would also reveal local changes in pediatric OSA patients.MethodsPolysomnographies were part of a larger study evaluating snoring in school-aged children. All right-handed children with OSA with matched peers (n = 10 +10) were included. The median sleep depth (in Hz) and the amount of deep sleep < 4Hz (DS%) were extracted for the whole NREM sleep time and for the first four NREM sleep episodes from frontopolar, central and occipital EEG-channels.ResultsThe main findings were that NREM sleep was lighter and DS% decreased in the right frontopolar area (p-values 0.034 and 0.019) in the OSA group when compared with the control group.ConclusionLocal sleep quality changes might provide new insights to evaluate the effects of pediatric OSA as our method revealed a local computational deep sleep decrease in the right frontopolar area in the OSA group.SignificanceThe presented findings might implicate delayed local cortical development in children's OSA, which may account for the cognitive problems found in pediatric OSA.



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