The Neurocognitive Effects of Sleep Disruption in Children and Adolescents

Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 813-823

  O'Brien, Louise M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HOSPITALS   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior; Learning; Mood; School performance; Sleep disorder

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADENOTONSILLECTOMY; ADOLESCENT; AGGRESSION; ANXIETY; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHILD; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM SLEEP DISORDER; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONDUCT DISORDER; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DAYTIME SOMNOLENCE; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONALITY; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOOD DISORDER; NARCOLEPSY; NIGHT SLEEP; PATIENT EDUCATION; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; REVIEW; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SLEEP INDUCTION; SLEEP PARAMETERS; SLEEP PATTERN; SLEEP TIME; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SNORING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SYMPTOM; WAKEFULNESS; WELLBEING;

ADOLESCENT; AFFECT; AGGRESSION; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; COGNITION DISORDERS; CONDUCT DISORDER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; LEARNING DISORDERS; NARCOLEPSY; REFERENCE VALUES; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; SLEEP DISORDERS; SLEEP DISORDERS, CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS;

EID: 70349988689     PISSN: 10564993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chc.2009.04.008     Document Type: Review

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