Does excessive daytime sleepiness contribute to explaining the association between obesity and ADHD symptoms?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 12-16

  Cortese, Samuele ^a,b   Konofal, Eric ^a,c   Bernardina, Bernardo Dalla ^b   Mouren, Marie Christine ^a   Lecendreux, Michel ^a  

^a HÔPITAL ROBERT DEBRÉ   (France)

^b Pediatric Hematology Oncology Unit   (Italy)

^c PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOREXIGENIC AGENT; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 6; MAZINDOL; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SOMNOLENCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ACTIVITY CYCLES; ANIMALS; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DISORDERS OF EXCESSIVE SOMNOLENCE; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OBESITY; SLEEP; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 36348934467     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2007.04.036     Document Type: Article

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