Nature Communications (Apr 2021)

Associations between frontal lobe structure, parent-reported obstructive sleep disordered breathing and childhood behavior in the ABCD dataset

  • Amal Isaiah,
  • Thomas Ernst,
  • Christine C. Cloak,
  • Duncan B. Clark,
  • Linda Chang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22534-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Parents often report behavioral problems in children with symptoms of sleep disordered breathing (oSDB), such as snoring. Here, the authors show that lower brain volumes within the frontal lobe are associated with parent-reported problem behaviors in children with parent-reported symptoms of oSDB.