Sleep and Emotion Processing in Adolescent Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
The goal of this clinical trial is to characterize the role of sleep, emotion processing, and daily affect in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and whether improving sleep quality using slow wave activity enhancement will impact next-day affect in youth. Participants will attend 4 study visits: * A clinical and trauma assessment visit * A testing day that may include cognitive testing, surveys, and an MRI. * An overnight sleep study following one week of at-home sleep recordings with the device in the sham condition * An overnight sleep study following one week of at-home sleep recordings with the device in the sleep enhancement condition
⁃ All participants must meet all of the following criteria:
• Aged 15-18 years old, inclusive
• Must agree to inform the investigators within 48 hours of any emergent medical conditions and procedures
• Able to lie still on their back for up to 1 hour
• Must not be pregnant
• Must agree not to participate in any other interventional clinical trials during the duration of the study
• Must be willing to comply with all study procedures
• Agree to have study visits video and/or audio recorded, including consent visit, clinical assessments (for staff training) and in-laboratory sleep visits (recording deleted within one month of study visit).
• A primary parent or guardian is willing participate in the study and to provide informed consent
• Are fluent in or predominantly speaking and reading in English
⁃ In addition, PTSD and TEC youth must satisfy the following criteria:
⁃ \- Must have a history of at least one traumatic event of any type, as defined by the DSM-V. This may include exposure to physical or sexual abuse, witnessing violence against loved ones or friends, traumatic accidents, natural disasters, death of a close family member etc.
⁃ Additional criteria for PTSD youth:
⁃ \- At baseline, meet threshold for DSM-5 criteria for current severe PTSD, as determined by the semi-structured clinical interview (KSADS).