Sleep in Children with Psychiatric Disorders

Sleep disturbances are common in pediatric psychiatric disorders and constitute key elements in diagnostic symptomatology of various primary psychiatric disorders including bipolar disorder, depression and anxiety disorder. Although sleep is not included in key defining criteria of some impairing illnesses such as obsessive compulsive disorder and schizophrenia, these disorders present with a very high prevalence of sleep disturbances. The interaction between sleep and psychopathology is very complex with significant inter relationship in development, severity and prognosis of psychiatric disorders and comorbid sleep disturbances.
Source: Seminars in Pediatric Neurology - Category: Neurology Authors: Source Type: research