Cleanthis Michael

1 Introduction With rising rates of psychiatric disorders (Keyes et al. 2019), together with technological advances in biological sciences, the past decade has witnessed growing interest in establishing reliable biomarkers of healthy and maladaptive aging and development. One promising type of biomarker involves the divergence between an individual's biological (e.g., telomere length, epigenetics) and chronological age (Cole et al. 2019).

Abstract Background: Sleep is critical for healthy brain development and emotional wellbeing, especially during adolescence when sleep, behavior, and neurobiology are rapidly evolving. Theoretical reviews and empirical research have historically focused on how sleep influences mental health through its impact on higher-order brain systems.

Abstract Response inhibition and sustained attention are critical for higher-order cognition and rely upon specific patterns of functional brain network organization. This study investigated how functional brain networks reconfigure to execute these cognitive processes during a go/no-go task with and without the presence of rewards in 26 children between the ages of 8 and 12 years. First, we compared task performance between standard and rewarded versions of a go/no-go task.