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ORIGINAL RESEARCH published: 24 January 2022 doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.820598 Frontiers in Psychiatry | www.frontiersin.org 1 January 2022 | Volume 12 | Article 820598 Edited by: Khaled Saad, Assiut University Hospital, Egypt Reviewed by: Islam Aud, Al-Azhar University, Egypt Bahaa Hawary, Faculty of Medicine, Aswan University, Egypt *Correspondence: Xin Zhang zhangxin@tmu.edu.cn Specialty section: This article was submitted to Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychiatry Received:23 November 2021 Accepted:15 December 2021 Published:24 January 2022 Citation: Gao L, Wang C, Song X-r, Tian L, Qu Z-y, Han Y and Zhang X (2022) The Sensory Abnormality Mediated Partially the Efficacy of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation on Treating Comorbid Sleep Disorder in Autism Spectrum Disorder Children. Front. Psychiatry 12:820598. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.820598 The Sensory Abnormality Mediated Partially the Efficacy of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation on Treating Comorbid Sleep Disorder in Autism Spectrum Disorder Children Lei Gao 1 , Chen Wang 1 , Xiao-rong Song 1 , Li Tian 2 , Zhi-yi Qu 1 , Yu Han 1 and Xin Zhang 1 * 1 Department of Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health, School of Public Health, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China, 2 Department of Cerebral Functional Therapy, Tianjin AndingHospital (Tianjin Mental Health Center), Tianjin, China Sleep disorder emerges as a common comorbidity in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and the interaction between the core symptoms of ASD and its sleep disorder remains unclear. Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) was used on the bilateral dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) toinvestigate the efficacy of rTMS on the core symptoms of ASD and comorbid sleep problems as well as the mediation role of the ASD symptoms between rTMS intervention and sleepimprovement. A total of 41 Chinese children with ASD and who met the criteria in thefifth edition of th