Sleep Disorders in Children

This book is both a manual of children´s sleep medicine for examinations and a practical guide for diagnosis and management of sleep disorders in children. Providing an overview of the most frequent sleep disorders encountered in childhood and adolescence, this book discusses sleep disorders in newborns and infants; disorders in childhood associated with poor-quality sleep; disorders associated with increased sleepiness; parasomnias; and neurological, psychiatric, medical and developmental diseases and sleep disorders. Sleep Disorders in Children is aimed at sleep researchers, pediatricians, child neurologists and child psychiatrists, as well as for patient´ organizations and families with affected children.