Sleep Disorders in Children
This book is both an exam guide to children´s sleep medicine and a practical manual for diagnosis and management of sleep disorders in children. An overview of the most frequent sleep disorders encountered in newborns, infants, children and adolescents is
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Soňa Nevšímalová Oliviero Bruni Editors
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Sleep Disorders in Children
Soňa Nevšímalová • Oliviero Bruni Editors
Sleep Disorders in Children
Editors Soňa Nevšímalová Department of Neurology Charles University and General Teaching Hospital Prague Czech Republic
Oliviero Bruni Sapienza University S. Andrea Hospital, Department of Developmental and Social Psychology Rome Roma Italy
ISBN 978-3-319-28638-9 ISBN 978-3-319-28640-2 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-28640-2
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To my mother, who infinitely loved me even if I was a “sleepless infant” She soothed me every night of my infancy and childhood with loving kindness that only a mother could give (Oliviero Bruni). This book is dedicated to my best teacher of sleep medicine prof. Bedřich Roth, and to my family, particularly to my sons Radan and Petr (Soňa Nevšímalová).
Preface
Sleep has often been an interesting subject for novelists, poets, painters, and other artists. From the antiquities to the Middle Ages up to the last centuries, several of them acknowledged the importance and the impact of sleep on behavior, emotions, performance, and overall health. Sleep was depicted as a mysterious part of life, bringing suggestions and premonitions, and always beneficial for the humans by Aristotle, Cicero, Dante, and Shakespeare, among many others. After the Middle Ages, some interest on the functions of sleep emerged and some specific pathologies linked to sleep were described, but little understanding of the physiology of sleep occurred until the twentieth century. The beginning of sleep medicine as a scientific field is linked to the discovery of the EEG by Hans Berger in 1929, which allowed the identification of sleep sta
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