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Home / Health News / Premature birth changes brain activity during sleep in infants

Premature birth changes brain activity during sleep in infants

Study reveals preterm birth can significantly change an infant's brain functions during shut-eye time. This can affect various other functions negatively.

By: ANI   | | Published: June 27, 2019 10:39 am
Tags: Brain health  Premature baby care  Premature birth  Sleep patterns  
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Sleep is a vital indicator of brain health in infants including premature babies © Shutterstock

A new study has highlighted that preterm birth can change an infants’ brain activity while they are sleeping and also affects their future brain health. Also Read - Genes linked to common brain disorder, Chiari 1 malformation, identified

The study published in the journal Nature Communications analysed brain activity data collected from 94 infants from Helsinki, Finland including 42 infants who had been born extremely premature at 27 weeks and a control group of 52 infants who had been born at full term. Also Read - Have more red wine and cheese to enjoy better cognitive health in old age



“Quality of sleep is a vital indicator of brain health, particularly in newborn infants, and our study looked at the brain process supporting distinct sleep patterns in preterm and full-term babies when measured about two weeks after the full term due date,” said Dr Luca Cocchi, senior author and head of QIMR Berghofer’s Clinical Brain Networks team. Also Read - Spend 10 mins in the sun every morning to sharpen your memory

“We found babies born at full term had marked reorganisation of brain activity during different states of sleep, while it wasn’t as distinct in very premature babies,” Dr Cocchi added.

Dr Cocchi further said, “Our study also indicated that the differences in neural sleep activity at 42 weeks could predict a child’s ability to use visual information to solve problems at two years of age. There was some indication it might also have a small effect on social-emotional abilities – but that would require further research.”

The study author also explained that sleep is like other behaviours and a ‘good sleep relies upon the proper organisation of dynamic patterns of brain activity during different sleep states.’

For the study, researchers used high-density electroencephalography (EEG) and other tools to map interactions between different brain regions when babies were in active sleep and quiet sleep.

“These two stages are key components of a newborn’s sleep-wake cycle, and gradually transform with age into cycles of rapid eye movement (REM) and non-REM sleep states such as deep sleep,” said Dr James Roberts, a co-author of the study and head of QIMR Berghofer’s Brain Modelling Group.

He added, “The project was unique because it used advanced modelling methods to address a scientific problem that had potential implications for lifelong brain health.”

“These tools have been previously used to describe complex systems such as the acoustics of musical instruments, but we’ve been able to adapt it to brain waves in sleeping babies.”

Neuroscientists, physicists, neonatal clinical neurophysiologists, psychiatrists, and biomedical engineers from several hospital and research facilities across the world collaborated for the study.

Published : June 27, 2019 10:39 am
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