Sleep spindle maturity promotes slow oscillation-spindle coupling across child and adolescent development.
human
memory
neuroscience
rhythmic neural activity
sleep
Journal
eLife
ISSN: 2050-084X
Titre abrégé: Elife
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101579614
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
24 Nov 2023
24 Nov 2023
Historique:
received:
19
09
2022
accepted:
18
10
2023
medline:
27
11
2023
pubmed:
24
11
2023
entrez:
24
11
2023
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
The synchronization of canonical fast sleep spindle activity (12.5-16 Hz, adult-like) precisely during the slow oscillation (0.5-1 Hz) up peak is considered an essential feature of adult non-rapid eye movement sleep. However, there is little knowledge on how this well-known coalescence between slow oscillations and sleep spindles develops. Leveraging individualized detection of single events, we first provide a detailed cross-sectional characterization of age-specific patterns of slow and fast sleep spindles, slow oscillations, and their coupling in children and adolescents aged 5-6, 8-11, and 14-18 years, and an adult sample of 20- to 26-year-olds. Critically, based on this, we then investigated how spindle and slow oscillation maturity substantiate age-related differences in their precise orchestration. While the predominant type of fast spindles was development-specific in that it was still nested in a frequency range below the canonical fast spindle range for the majority of children, the well-known slow oscillation-spindle coupling pattern was evident for sleep spindles in the adult-like canonical fast spindle range in all four age groups-but notably less precise in children. To corroborate these findings, we linked personalized measures of fast spindle maturity, which indicate the similarity between the prevailing development-specific and adult-like canonical fast spindles, and slow oscillation maturity, which reflects the extent to which slow oscillations show frontal dominance, with individual slow oscillation-spindle coupling patterns. Importantly, we found that fast spindle maturity was uniquely associated with enhanced slow oscillation-spindle coupling strength and temporal precision across the four age groups. Taken together, our results suggest that the increasing ability to generate adult-like canonical fast sleep spindles actuates precise slow oscillation-spindle coupling patterns from childhood through adolescence and into young adulthood. Cells in the brain are wired together like an electric circuit that can relay information from one area of the brain to the next. Even when sleeping, the human brain continues to send signals to process information it has encountered during the day. This results in two patterns of electrical activity that define the sleeping brain: slowly repeating waves (or slow oscillations) and rapid bursts of activity known as sleep spindles. Although slow oscillations and sleep spindles are generated in different regions of the brain, they often happen at the same time. This syncing of activity is thought to help different parts of the brain to communicate with each other. Such communication is essential for new memories to become stable and last a long time. In children, slow oscillations and sleep spindles appear together less frequently, suggesting that these co-occurring patterns of electrical activity develop as humans grow into adults. Here, Joechner et al. set out to understand what drives slow oscillations and sleep spindles to start happening at the same time. The team used a technique called electroencephalography (or EEG for short) to study the brain activity of children, teenagers and adults as they slept. This revealed that slow oscillations and sleep spindles occur together less often in children compared to teenagers and adults. Moreover, the slow oscillations and sleep spindles observed in the children had very different physical characteristics to those observed in adults. Further analyses showed that the more similar the children’s sleep spindles were to adult spindles, the more consistently they appeared at the same time as the slow oscillations. The findings of Joechner et al. suggest that as children grow up, their sleep spindles become more adult-like, causing the spindles to happen at the same time as slow oscillations more consistently. This indicates that brain circuits that generate sleep spindles may play an essential role in developing successful communication networks in the human brain. In the future, this work may ultimately provide new insights into how age-related changes to the brain contribute to cognitive development, and suggests sleep as a potential intervention target for neurodevelopmental disorders.
Autres résumés
Type: plain-language-summary
(eng)
Cells in the brain are wired together like an electric circuit that can relay information from one area of the brain to the next. Even when sleeping, the human brain continues to send signals to process information it has encountered during the day. This results in two patterns of electrical activity that define the sleeping brain: slowly repeating waves (or slow oscillations) and rapid bursts of activity known as sleep spindles. Although slow oscillations and sleep spindles are generated in different regions of the brain, they often happen at the same time. This syncing of activity is thought to help different parts of the brain to communicate with each other. Such communication is essential for new memories to become stable and last a long time. In children, slow oscillations and sleep spindles appear together less frequently, suggesting that these co-occurring patterns of electrical activity develop as humans grow into adults. Here, Joechner et al. set out to understand what drives slow oscillations and sleep spindles to start happening at the same time. The team used a technique called electroencephalography (or EEG for short) to study the brain activity of children, teenagers and adults as they slept. This revealed that slow oscillations and sleep spindles occur together less often in children compared to teenagers and adults. Moreover, the slow oscillations and sleep spindles observed in the children had very different physical characteristics to those observed in adults. Further analyses showed that the more similar the children’s sleep spindles were to adult spindles, the more consistently they appeared at the same time as the slow oscillations. The findings of Joechner et al. suggest that as children grow up, their sleep spindles become more adult-like, causing the spindles to happen at the same time as slow oscillations more consistently. This indicates that brain circuits that generate sleep spindles may play an essential role in developing successful communication networks in the human brain. In the future, this work may ultimately provide new insights into how age-related changes to the brain contribute to cognitive development, and suggests sleep as a potential intervention target for neurodevelopmental disorders.
Identifiants
pubmed: 37999945
doi: 10.7554/eLife.83565
pii: 83565
pmc: PMC10672804
doi:
pii:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Subventions
Organisme : Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
ID : WE 4269/5-1
Organisme : Jacobs Foundation
ID : Early Career Research Fellowship 2017-2019
Organisme : Austrian Science Fund
ID : T397-B02
Organisme : Jacobs Foundation
ID : JS1112H
Organisme : Austrian Science Fund
ID : W1233-G17
Organisme : Austrian Science Fund
ID : P25000
Organisme : German Academic Exchange Service
ID : PRIME Fellowship
Informations de copyright
© 2023, Joechner et al.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
AJ, MH, GG, KH, MW No competing interests declared
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