Difficulty with sleep can affect adults and children with ASD in two ways: by exacerbating autism-related symptoms and causing issues related to sleep deprivation or excessive sleep. Learning how these disturbances impact people with ASD can help parents and partners understand the challenges of sleep...
Two adolescent mental health fields — sleep and depression — have advanced largely in parallel until about four years ago. Although sleep problems have been thought to be a symptom of adolescent depression, emerging evidence suggests that sleep difficu
Two adolescent mental health fields — sleep and depression — have advanced largely in parallel until about four years ago. Although sleep problems have been thought to be a symptom of adolescent depression, emerging evidence suggests that sleep difficu
(10 hours in bed a night for five consecutive nights) condition and then crossed over to the other condition the following week. At the end of each week, adolescents and their parents rated the adolescent’s affect and affect regulation difficulties over the previous week. Adolescent’s ...
If future cohort and clinical trial research provide insights that suggest that appropriate therapeutic interventions for sleep disorders might help children with emotional and behavioral problems, it would be very informative for child and adolescent psychiatry....
Chronic insomnia is also frequently confused with DSWD, as it also involves difficulty in falling asleep. The difference between the two, however, is that an adolescent with DSWD will sleep the whole night through when they don’t have to wake up for school, whereas someone with insomnia is ...
Teenagers often get a bad rap for making some not-so-excellent choices during their youth. That’s because the rapid changes in the adolescent brain make them more sensitive to perceived reward. (19) For example, when they tryalcoholor take a chance with a romantic interest, the strong feel...
Depression acts as a mediating factor, while difficulty describing feelings strengthens the relationship between social network site addiction and depression. These findings highlight the role of difficulty describing feelings in the interplay between social network site addiction and sleep quality, offering...
However, no significant relationship between very short sleep duration (< 7 and < 6 h for 8–13 and 14–16 years old, respectively) and overweight/obesity among the children and adolescent samples in this study. This finding is different from previous studies [62]. The group reporting...
Identifying childhood sleep patterns and the specific time points that distinguish between psychosis and BPD may help improve our understanding of their origin. To our knowledge, no studies have examined the mediating role of depression in the association between childhood sleep and adolescent psychotic ...