Assessment and Pharmacologic Treatment of Sleep Disturbance in Autism

Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 773-785

  Johnson, Kyle P ^a   Malow, Beth A ^b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; CENTRAL STIMULANT AGENT; CLONAZEPAM; CLONIDINE; CORTICOSTEROID; FLUVOXAMINE; GABAPENTIN; MELATONIN; MIRTAZAPINE; RISPERIDONE; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; TOPIRAMATE; TRAZODONE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; VALPROIC ACID;

ASTHMA; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUTISM; BEDTIME DOSAGE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHILD; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED RELEASE FORMULATION; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIARRHEA; DIFFICULTY STAYING AWAKE; DIZZINESS; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FAMILY STRESS; FATIGUE; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; MOOD DISORDER; NEUROTRANSMISSION; PARASOMNIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SLEEP AROUSAL DISORDER; SLEEP DISORDER; SYMPTOM;

ADOLESCENT; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; MELATONIN; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; RISK FACTORS; SLEEP DISORDERS; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS;

EID: 50449094953     PISSN: 10564993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chc.2008.06.006     Document Type: Review

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