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"We found that many children (44.7 percent) who would theoretically proceed to surgery without a preoperative sleep study if the guidelines were strictly followed, had normal sleep studies, potentially calling into question the need forsurgery," explained corresponding author Michael Cohen, MD, assista...
Adequate sleep is also essential to our children’s mental health and emotional wellbeing. Studies in children and adolescents have demonstrated that sleep deprivation can lead to increased depression, anger, irritability and ...
Daytime sleepiness is only one of the symptoms in RSD, but children can also present with difficulty concentrating or hyperactivity. For this reason, different studies on the neurophysiological aspects of sleep in RSD have been completed, demonstrating that children with RSD have increased sympathetic ...
Ongoing studies are warranted to establish reliable and valid measures of self-reported sleep in children to accurately detect health problems associated with poor sleep quality. This mini-review of the literature is an important first step to identify the most reliable subjective sleep measures in ...
Previous studies in TD children have shown that shortened sleep duration in early childhood is associated with externalizing behaviors (behaviors that are directed toward the external environment such as hyperactivity-impulsivity, or aggression), and lower cognitive performance on neurodevelopmental tests (La...
Sleep studies are sometimes recommended to judge the causes of sleepwalking. These studies allow doctors to identify things like breathing or movement abnormalities. If a sleep disorder is identified, treatments to settle it may decrease your sleepwalking. In other cases, analysis of the child's sle...
Measurements and results We compared daytime nap and overnight polysomnograms in 143 children (52 girls; mean [± SD] age, 5.6 ± 3.1 years). Total sleep time was 1 h in daytime nap, and 5.1 ± 1.3 h in ONP. The interval between the two studies was 5.9 ± 4.8 months. The ...
The results indicate poor sleep quality in childhood forecasts later socio-emotional problems and also indicate the importance of studies exploring how sleep affects many aspects of children's mental health and well-being.(1)Why is Shakespeare's comparison used? ___A.To compare different attitudes...
In children and adolescents, insufficient sleep is associated with increased risk for: Obesity:a 2015 meta-analysis of longitudinal studies found that children and adolescents with shorter sleep duration had more than twice the risk of becoming overweight or obese (1). ...