{"id":121612,"date":"2021-04-16T08:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T15:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/poor-sleep-could-be-core-feature-of-autism-related-conditions"},"modified":"2021-04-16T08:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T15:22:17","slug":"poor-sleep-could-be-core-feature-of-autism-related-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/poor-sleep-could-be-core-feature-of-autism-related-conditions","title":{"rendered":"Poor sleep could be core feature of autism, related conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/poor-sleep-could-be-core-feature-of-autism-related-conditions.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Sleepy head<\/b>: Fruit flies with a gene mutation in the gene ISWI have poorly formed sleep circuits in their brains.<\/p>\n<p>A gene that is poorly expressed in people with certain neurodevelopmental conditions is also <a href=\"https:\/\/advances.sciencemag.org\/content\/7\/8\/eabe2597\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">essential for sleep<\/a>, according to a new study in fruit flies.<\/p>\n<p>Many people with autism or other neurodevelopmental conditions have trouble <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spectrumnews.org\/news\/sleep-problems-autism-explained\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">falling asleep and slumbering soundly<\/a>. This difficulty is often viewed as a side effect of a given condition\u2019s core traits, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spectrumnews.org\/news\/autistic-childrens-sleep-problems-may-stem-sensory-issues\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">heightened sensory sensitivities<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spectrumnews.org\/news\/repetitive-behaviors-and-stimming-in-autism-explained\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">repetitive behaviors<\/a> in autism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sleepy head: Fruit flies with a gene mutation in the gene ISWI have poorly formed sleep circuits in their brains. A gene that is poorly expressed in people with certain neurodevelopmental conditions is also essential for sleep, according to a new study in fruit flies. Many people with autism or other neurodevelopmental conditions have trouble [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}