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Applying classifications of sleep disorders to children with neurologic conditions
1Department of Pediatrics, Rainbow Babies' and Children's Hospital of the University Hospitals of Cleveland, Case Western Reserve University, OH, USA.
Insights
Pediatric sleep disorders and their development are crucial for specialists. This review focuses on sleep disturbances in children, particularly those with neurological conditions.
Area of Science:
- Pediatric Neurology
- Sleep Medicine
Background:
- Pediatric specialists, including neurologists, require information on sleep ontogeny and disorders in children.
- Neurologists often evaluate children with undiagnosed sleep symptoms and manage sleep disturbances in those with neurologic diseases.
Purpose of the Study:
- To review pediatric sleep disturbances.
- To specifically address sleep issues in children with neurologic conditions.
Main Methods:
- Literature review of pediatric sleep disorders.
- Focus on neurological conditions impacting sleep.
Main Results:
- Discussion of sleep ontogeny in children.
- Analysis of sleep disturbances in pediatric neurology patients.
Conclusions:
- Understanding pediatric sleep disturbances is essential for neurologists.
- Specific attention is needed for sleep in children with neurological diseases.
Abstract:
Information concerning sleep ontogeny and sleep disorders in children is required by many pediatric specialists. Pediatric neurologists, for instance, frequently are called upon to assist in the evaluation of children with undiagnosed symptoms and signs during sleep, as well as to care for children and adolescents with specific neurologic diseases who also experience sleep disturbances. This review discusses pediatric sleep disturbances with specific reference to sleep in children with neurologic conditions.