Purpose: Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has been widely adopted to investigate the neural activity in gray matter (GM) in the field of sleep research, but the neural activity in white matter (WM) has received much less attention. The current study set out to test our hypothesis that WM functional abnormality is associated with poor sleep quality.
Participants And Methods: K-means clustering analysis was performed on 78 healthy adults drawn from the Human Connectome Project dataset to extract stable WM functional networks (WM-FNs) and GM-FNs. The differences in functional connectivity within WM-FNs and between WM- and GM-FNs, as well as the power spectrum between good sleep quality group (Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) <6, daytime dysfunction = 0) and poor sleep quality group (PSQI >6, daytime dysfunction >0) were examined between groups with good and poor sleep quality. Additionally, linear relationships between sleep quality and altered functional characteristics of WM-FNs were evaluated.
Results: Functional connectivity between middle and superficial WM-FNs, short- and long-range functional connectivity between WM- and GM-FNs were decreased in poor sleepers and negatively correlated with PSQI score. The mean amplitudes of right sensorimotor WM networks at whole, high and low frequency bands were higher in poor sleepers and were positively correlated with PSQI score.
Conclusion: WM functional abnormality is associated with poor sleep quality. The neurobiological mechanisms that underlie the functional alterations of WM-FNs in poor sleepers need to be investigated in future studies.
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