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B. Clinical Sleep Science IX. Psychiatric and Behavioral Disorders and Sleep<br />

NART-R, WTAR, Symbol Digit Modalities Test, Trail Making Test parts<br />

A & B, Seashore Rhythm Test, Speech Sounds Perception Test and the<br />

PASAT.<br />

Results: Preliminary results revealed a significant interaction between<br />

the self-reported symptom of being tired with type of ADD diagnosed<br />

(i.e.ADD vs.ADD Plus) on PASAT trial 1 scores F(1,1106)=6.10, p=.014<br />

and on PASAT trial 2 scores F(1,1095)=6.35, p=.012. Post hoc tests revealed<br />

an opposing effect of being tired for diagnosis of ADD vs. ADD<br />

plus on performance scores for both trials. A significant main effect for<br />

the self-reported symptom of finding it difficult to complete tasks was<br />

found to influence performance on PASAT trial 3 scores F(3,873)=3.45,<br />

p=.016.<br />

Conclusion: Findings indicate that tiredness and attention symptoms affect<br />

performance differentially in the two groups ADD and ADD plus.<br />

0726<br />

<strong>SLEEP</strong> INFLUENCE ON CARDIAC ACTIVITY IN ADULTS<br />

WITH AUTISM<br />

Pelletier M 1,4 , D’Antono B 2,5 , Chevrette T 1,4 , Mottron L 3,4,5 ,<br />

Godbout R 1,4,5<br />

1<br />

Sleep Laboratory & Clinic, Hôpital Rivière-des-Prairies, Montreal,<br />

QC, Canada, 2 Research Center, Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal,<br />

QC, Canada, 3 Centre d’Excellence en Troubles Envahissants du<br />

Développement de l’Université de Montréal, University of Montreal,<br />

Montreal, QC, Canada, 4 Centre de Recherche Fernand-Seguin,<br />

Hôpital Rivière-des-Prairies, Montreal, QC, Canada, 5 Department of<br />

Psychiatry, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada<br />

Introduction: Poor sleep is a frequent finding in autism and it has been<br />

shown to interfere with daytime functioning, using either behavioral (Limoges<br />

et al., 2005) or EEG measures (Daoust et al., 2004). Literature in<br />

typically developing individuals (TD) shows that sleep also influences<br />

the regulation of the autonomic nervous system so that the sympathovagal<br />

tone is normally higher in the morning compared to evening values.<br />

Studies of electrocardiographic (ECG) recordings suggest that there<br />

might be disequilibrium between sympathetic and parasympathetic activity<br />

in autism (Ming et al., 2005) but it is not known whether this observation<br />

is related to sleep or not.<br />

Methods: Fifteen men with ASD (22.3 ± 3.5 years) and 18 typically<br />

developing individuals (TD: 21.0 ± 4.2 years) were evaluated over two<br />

consecutive nights in a sleep laboratory. ECG samples were taken for<br />

5 minutes at bedtime and just before final rise time in the morning.<br />

Spectral analysis of the ECG signal was performed using a commercial<br />

software and the following four variables were extracted: total spectral<br />

power, low frequency power (LF: sympathetic tone), high frequency<br />

spectral power (HFabs: parasympathetic tone), normalized values of<br />

high frequency spectral power (HFnu). Groups were compared with<br />

Student’s t-tests.<br />

Results: Significant differences between evening and morning values<br />

were found only in the TD group, with lower evening values for total<br />

spectral power (p=0.008), LF (p=0.007) and HFabs (p=0.040) were all<br />

lower in the evening compared to morning. In the morning, significantly<br />

lower HFabs (p=0.043) and HFnu (p=0.027) values were found in ASD<br />

vs. TD groups.<br />

Conclusion: These results suggest that the effect of nocturnal sleep differs<br />

in TD and ASD individuals and that the parasympathetic tone is<br />

lower in ASD at rise time. Further analyses will focus on ECG activity<br />

during sleep, for each of the sleep stages.<br />

Support (If Any): Supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research<br />

and the “Fonds de la recherche en santé du Québec”.<br />

0727<br />

POOR SUBJECTIVE <strong>SLEEP</strong> WITH NORMAL OBJECTIVE<br />

<strong>SLEEP</strong> DURATION INCREASES RISK OF SUICIDAL<br />

IDEATION AND/OR ATTEMPTS<br />

Singareddy R 1 , Vgontzas AN 1 , Fernandez-Mendoza J 1 , Calhoun S 1 ,<br />

Shaffer M 2 , Bixler EO 1<br />

1<br />

Sleep Research & Treatment Center, Penn State College of Medicine,<br />

Hershey, PA, USA, 2 Public Health Sciences, Penn State College of<br />

Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA<br />

Introduction: Subjective sleep disturbances are associated with suicidal<br />

ideation and/or attempts (suicidal behavior =SB). Similarly, objective<br />

sleep disturbances were found to be associated with SB in clinical samples.<br />

One actigraphic study in non-clinical sample (n=49; ages 19-24)<br />

found sleep variability to be associated with SB, but was limited by lack<br />

of polysomnographic data. In this study we examined the association of<br />

polysomnographic (PSG) and subjective sleep with SB in general population.<br />

Methods: A subsample of 1741 (age >20) out of 16,583 randomly<br />

selected adults from general population underwent comprehensive assessment<br />

(history, physical examination) including suicidal ideation/attempts<br />

(SB) and PSG.<br />

Results: The prevalence of lifetime SB was 5.7%. Females (p=.011) and<br />

subjects with poor subjective sleep (p/=6hr of PSGsleep in comparison to poor subjective sleep and /=6hr of PSGsleep was 2.52 (CI:1.22-5.19).<br />

Conclusion: Subjective poor sleep with normal PSG sleep duration<br />

(>/=6hr) is associated with increased risk of suicidal behavior. It is possible<br />

that individuals with poor subjective sleep but normal objective<br />

sleep may have underlying poorer coping resources and more anxiety/<br />

rumination which may increase the risk of suicide.<br />

Support (If Any): National Institutes of Health grants RO1 51931 &<br />

RO1 40916<br />

0728<br />

SHARED METACOGNITIVE PROCESSES IN INSOMNIA AND<br />

ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE<br />

Hairston IS 1 , Conroy DA 1 , Arnedt J 2 , Armitage R 2 , Brower K 1<br />

1<br />

Substance Abuse Section, Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann<br />

Arbor, MI, USA, 2 Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI,<br />

USA<br />

Introduction: Alcohol-dependent (AD) individuals typically report<br />

sleeping poorly. Investigations of the relationship between AD and insomnia<br />

largely focus on the impact of alcohol on brain function and on<br />

self-medication. However, a feature common to insomnia and addiction<br />

is ruminative preoccupation with sleep or alcohol, respectively. Such<br />

intrusive thought processes can be interpreted as metacognitions similar<br />

to depressive rumination. This investigation assessed whether abstaining<br />

alcoholics with insomnia (AD-INS) differed from alcoholics without<br />

insomnia (AD-NINS) and healthy controls (HCs), in their preoccupation<br />

with sleep quality.<br />

Methods: All subjects were recruited from the community. HCs (N=11)<br />

had no Axis I disorders. The AD-INS group (N=16) met research diagnostic<br />

criteria for insomnia, and the AD-NINS (N=15) did not. Both AD<br />

groups stopped drinking 3-12 weeks before the study; all participants<br />

adhered to an 11p-6a sleep schedule and completed daily sleep diaries at<br />

home for 1 week. Instruments included 3 ruminative scales—the Anxiety<br />

and Preoccupation about Sleep Questionnaire (APSQ), Response<br />

<strong>SLEEP</strong>, Volume 34, <strong>Abstract</strong> <strong>Supplement</strong>, <strong>2011</strong><br />

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