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Sleep Disorders in Children

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Sleep disorders in childhood occur rather frequently. Most typical diseases or sleep disorders are already prevalent in childhood or adolescence; others occur typically or exclusively in childhood. Insomnia disorders with difficulties of initiating and maintaining sleep are particularly frequent in preschool and primary school children as well as in adolescents. Parasomnia complaints such as night terror (pavor nocturnus) and nightmares are also frequently observed in children. The treatment of sleep disorders for children and adolescents is different from that of adults and should be age appropriate. This chapter discusses sleep-related breathing disorders in childhood, notably with childhood obstructive sleep apnea. Even if the clinical presentation and the pathophysiology of obstructive sleep-related breathing disorders in children and adults are very similar, their therapy differs in various aspects.

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  1. Department of Psychology, Bielefeld University Department of Psychology, Bielefeld, Germany

    A. A. Schlarb

  2. Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital Marburg, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany

    B. A. Stuck

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Schlarb, A.A., Stuck, B.A. (2021). Sleep Disorders in Children. In: Practice of Sleep Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17412-5_11

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