Sleep disturbances in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder

Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 565-577

  Spruyt, Karen ^a   Gozal, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; insomnia; limit setting disorder; restless legs; sleep disordered breathing

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE; CLONIDINE; CYPROHEPTADINE; DEXAMPHETAMINE; DIPHENHYDRAMINE; GUANFACINE; METHYLPHENIDATE; MIRTAZAPINE; PEMOLINE; TRAZODONE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ACTIMETRY; ANXIETY; APNEA HYPOPNEA INDEX; AROUSAL; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUTISM; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM SLEEP DISORDER; COMORBIDITY; CONDUCT DISORDER; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HYPERSOMNIA; INSOMNIA; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LEARNING DISORDER; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL INSTABILITY; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NARCOLEPSY; NOCTURNAL ENURESIS; NONREM SLEEP; OBESITY; PARASOMNIA; PERIODIC LIMB MOVEMENT DISORDER; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; REVIEW; SELF REPORT; SLEEP; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SLEEP TIME; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SNORING; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOMNOLENCE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOCTURNAL MYOCLONUS SYNDROME; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROMES; SLEEP DISORDERS;

EID: 79953739071     PISSN: 14737175     EISSN: 17448360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/ern.11.7     Document Type: Review

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