کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
3178185 1200332 2007 7 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Sleep in children with autistic spectrum disorder: A questionnaire and polysomnographic study
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علم عصب شناسی عصب شناسی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Sleep in children with autistic spectrum disorder: A questionnaire and polysomnographic study
چکیده انگلیسی

ObjectiveTo evaluate sleep in children with autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) by means of sleep questionnaires and polysomnography; moreover, to analyze their cyclic alternating pattern (CAP).MethodsThirty-one patients with ASD (28 males, 3 females, aged 3.7–19 years) and age-matched normal controls were included. ASD children were evaluated by a standard sleep questionnaire that consisted of 45 items in a Likert-type scale covering several areas of sleep disorders and by overnight polysomnography in the sleep laboratory after one adaptation night.ResultsThe questionnaire results showed that parents of ASD children reported a high prevalence of disorders of initiating and maintaining sleep, enuresis, repetitive behavior when falling asleep, and daytime sleepiness. Polysomnographically, ASD children showed reduced time in bed, total sleep time, sleep period time and rapid eye movement (REM) latency. ASD subjects had a CAP rate during slow-wave sleep (SWS) lower than normal controls, together with a lower percentage of A1 subtypes.ConclusionsASD children questionnaires showed a higher percentage of disorders of initiating and maintaining sleep than normal controls; this was not completely confirmed by sleep staging. CAP measures showed subtle alterations of NREM sleep which could be detected with an appropriate methodology of analysis. The reduction of A1 subtypes during SWS might play a role in the impairment of cognitive functioning in these subjects.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Sleep Medicine - Volume 9, Issue 1, December 2007, Pages 64–70
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