Addressing sleep in children with anxiety disorders

Sleep Medicine Clinics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 137-148

  Cowie, Jennifer ^a   Alfano, Candice A ^a   Patriquin, Michelle A ^a   Reynolds, Katharine C ^a   Talavera, David ^a   Clementi, Michelle A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Anxiety disorders; Children; Risk factors; Sleep; Sleep problems; Treatment

Indexed keywords

AGORAPHOBIA; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANXIETY DISORDER; AROUSAL; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CATASTROPHIZING; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DAYTIME SOMNOLENCE; DSM-5; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; FEAR; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HABITUATION; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; MAJOR DEPRESSION; NIGHTMARE; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PANIC; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; REVIEW; SELECTIVE MUTISM; SEPARATION ANXIETY; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SLEEP PATTERN; SLEEP TIME; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SOCIAL PHOBIA; TARGETED BEHAVIORAL THERAPY;

EID: 84901749962     PISSN: 1556407X     EISSN: 15564088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsmc.2014.02.001     Document Type: Review

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