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Sleep in Neurological and Neurodevelopmental Disorders

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Abstract

Sleep problems are highly prevalent in children suffering from diverse neurological diseases. There is a close relationship between the degree of brain abnormality and impaired ability to generate physiological sleep-wake cycles and normal sleep architecture. This chapter summarizes clinical features and management of sleep pathologies in different neurological diseases. Cerebral palsy and neurodevelopmental disorders such as mental retardation, motor coordination disorder, developmental dysphasia, and learning disabilities are reviewed, as well as attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and autism spectrum disorders. Attention is focused on sleep complaints in chromosomal abnormalities and various genetic programming malformations of the nervous system. Sleep disturbances can be a leading symptom (increasing with the severity of the disease) in many neurometabolic and/or neurodegenerative diseases. Children suffering from neuromuscular diseases are at increased risk of sleep-related breathing disorders, and their management has a substantial role in the patients’ life longevity.

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Nevšímalová, S., Bruni, O. (2017). Sleep in Neurological and Neurodevelopmental Disorders. In: Nevšímalová, S., Bruni, O. (eds) Sleep Disorders in Children. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28640-2_16

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