Pediatric patients with neurologic disorders often experience significant sleep abnormalities, which can negatively impact their quality of life and exacerbate symptoms of their conditions. This chapter explores common sleep disturbances in children with neurologic disorders, including headache, epilepsy, autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and cerebral palsy (CP). Several studies suggest that sleep disorders are frequently not discussed by parents, leading to underdiagnosis of these disorders in children with neurological conditions. Since there are bidirectional relationships between sleep and neurological disorders such that worsening of one lead to worsening of the other, it is important that sleep disorders are identified and treated in these populations. In fact, studies suggest that treatment of sleep disorder not only improves sleep quality and sleep-related symptomatology, but it may also actually improve the symptoms of neurological disorders. Hence, we discuss details of sleep disorders in common neurological disorders.

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Neurological Disorders

  • Daniel Rongo,
  • Rabab Naqvi,
  • Shan Luong,
  • Sejal V. Jain

摘要

Pediatric patients with neurologic disorders often experience significant sleep abnormalities, which can negatively impact their quality of life and exacerbate symptoms of their conditions. This chapter explores common sleep disturbances in children with neurologic disorders, including headache, epilepsy, autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and cerebral palsy (CP). Several studies suggest that sleep disorders are frequently not discussed by parents, leading to underdiagnosis of these disorders in children with neurological conditions. Since there are bidirectional relationships between sleep and neurological disorders such that worsening of one lead to worsening of the other, it is important that sleep disorders are identified and treated in these populations. In fact, studies suggest that treatment of sleep disorder not only improves sleep quality and sleep-related symptomatology, but it may also actually improve the symptoms of neurological disorders. Hence, we discuss details of sleep disorders in common neurological disorders.