Sleep disorders in children with neurologic diseases
Title
Sleep disorders in children with neurologic diseases
Creator
Zucconi M; Bruni O
Identifier
Publisher
Seminars In Pediatric Neurology
Date
2001
Subject
Child; Humans; Preschool; Q3 Literature Search; Nervous System Diseases/complications; Diagnosis; Differential; Anticonvulsants/therapeutic use; Sleep Disorders/etiology; Blindness/complications; Epilepsy/complications; Headache/complications; Melatonin/therapeutic use; Mental Retardation/complications; Muscular Dystrophies/complications
Description
Pediatric neurologic diseases are often associated with different kinds of sleep disruption (mainly insomnia, less frequently hypersomnia or parasomnias). Due to the key-role of sleep for development, the effort to ameliorate sleep patterns in these children could have important prognostic benefits. Study of sleep architecture and organization in neurologic disorders could lead to a better comprehension of the pathogenesis and a better treatment of the disorders. This article focuses on the following specific neurologic diseases: nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy and abnormal motor behaviors of epileptic origin, evaluating differential diagnosis with parasomnias; achondroplasia, confirming the crucial role of craniofacial deformity in determining sleep-disordered breathing; neuromuscular diseases, mainly Duchenne's muscular dystrophy and myotonic dystrophy; cerebral palsy, evaluating either the features of sleep architecture and the importance of the respiratory problems associated; headaches, confirming the strict relationships with sleep in terms of neurochemical and neurobehavioral substrates; and finally a review on the effectiveness of melatonin for sleep problems in children with neurologic syndromes and mental retardation, blindness, and epilepsy.
2001
Rights
Article information provided for research and reference use only. PedPalASCNET does not hold any rights over the resource listed here. All rights are retained by the journal listed under publisher and/or the creator(s).
Type
Journal Article
Citation List Month
Backlog
URL Address
Citation
Zucconi M; Bruni O, “Sleep disorders in children with neurologic diseases,” Pediatric Palliative Care Library, accessed April 28, 2024, https://pedpalascnetlibrary.omeka.net/items/show/12117.