Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Functional Connectivity of Brain Regions after High-Intensity Exercise in Adolescents

Autor: Xiaodan Niu; Puyan Chi; Jing Song; Yaohui Pang; Qianqian Wu; Yang Liu; Aiping Chi
Sprache: Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2022
Quelle: Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles
Online Zugang: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/14/23/16175
https://doaj.org/toc/2071-1050
doi:10.3390/su142316175
2071-1050
https://doaj.org/article/ae6a4b2be0e34afeb71aa79ee81fb1c8
https://doi.org/10.3390/su142316175
https://doaj.org/article/ae6a4b2be0e34afeb71aa79ee81fb1c8
Erfassungsnummer: ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:ae6a4b2be0e34afeb71aa79ee81fb1c8

Zusammenfassung

Lack of sleep causes central fatigue in the body, which in turn affects brain function, and similarly, intense exercise causes both central and peripheral fatigue. This study aims to characterize the brain state, and in particular the functional changes in the relevant brain regions, after intense exercise in sleep-deprived conditions by detecting EEG signals. Thirty healthy adolescents were screened to participate in the trial, a sleep-deprivation model was developed, and a running exercise was performed the following morning. Meanwhile, pre-exercise and post-exercise Electroencephalogram (EEG) data were collected from the subjects using a 32-conductor electroencephalogram acquisition system (Neuroscan), and the data were analyzed using MATLAB (2013b) to process the data and analyzed Phase Lag Index (PLI) and graph theory metrics for different brain connections. Compared with the control group, the pre-exercise sleep-deprivation group showed significantly lower functional brain connectivity in the central and right temporal lobes in the Delta band ( p < 0.05), significantly lower functional brain connectivity in the parietal and occipital regions in the Theta band ( p < 0.05), and significantly higher functional brain connectivity in the left temporal and right parietal regions in the Beta2 band ( p < 0.05). In the post-exercise sleep-deprivation group, functional brain connectivity was significantly lower in the central to right occipital and central regions in the Delta band ( p < 0.05), significantly higher in the whole brain regions in the Theta, Alpha2, and Beta1 bands ( p < 0.05 and 0.001), significantly higher in the right central, right parietal, and right temporal regions in the Alpha1 band ( p < 0.05), and in the Beta2 band, the functional brain connections from the left frontal region to the right parietal region were significantly lower ( p < 0.05). The results of the brain functional network properties showed that the clustering coefficients in the Delta band were significantly ...