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Signs and Symptoms of Non-restorative Sleep

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Through my daily clinical work in developmental paediatrics and child and adolescent psychiatry, I have seen an increasing number of children and youth with neurodevelopmental and/or neuropsychiatric conditions, who suffer from undiagnosed and/or untreated sleep problems. I came to the realization that the lack of attention given to these problems by medical care providers came from the scarcity of explanatory models for reported symptoms. All patients had received various developmental paediatrics and mental health diagnoses, based on their daytime presentations (e.g. attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, ADHD; autism spectrum disorder, autism). However, the possible effect that chronic sleep deprivation had on daytime symptoms was either recognized but not investigated further or remained unrecognized and was therefore taken as given or even considered to be part of the condition. This article gives an overview of how, during clinical encounters, the description of behaviours and clinical features as clinical best practice can change our understanding of sleep problems in children with neurodevelopmental and/or neuropsychiatric conditions.

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Ipsiroglu, O.S. (2019). Signs and Symptoms of Non-restorative Sleep. In: Liem, E. (eds) Sleep Disorders in Pediatric Dentistry . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13269-9_2

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