Sleep and Sleep Disorders
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The interaction between polygenic risk and environmental influences: A direct test of the 3P model of insomnia in adolescents
Open Access paper from the JCPP – ‘This work sheds light on the complex relationship between genetic and environmental factors implicated for insomnia.’ Juan J. Madrid-Valero (pic) et al.
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JCPP Advances 2023 Special Issue – ‘Evidence-based Synthesis Studies for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Conditions’
September sees the release of the JCPP Advances 2023 Special Issue on ‘Evidence-based Synthesis Studies for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Conditions’, edited by Professor Henrik Larsson, Dr. Marco Solmi, Professor Guilherme Polanczyk, Professor Seena Fazel, Dr. Cinzia Del Giovane and Dr. Ioana Cristea.
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Report from a randomized control trial: improved alignment between circadian biology and sleep–wake behavior as a mechanism of depression symptom improvement in evening-type adolescents with depressive symptoms
Open Access paper from the JCPP – ‘These results provide novel evidence for improved alignment between circadian biology and sleep–wake behavior as a specific mechanism of depression improvement, provide key clues into the complex relationship between sleep and depression, and have significant clinical implications for adolescents with depression.’ Lauren D. Asarnow (pic) et al.
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More frequent naps are associated with lower cognitive development in a cohort of 8–38-month-old children, during the Covid-19 pandemic
Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – ‘Here we investigate sleep patterns in association with two measures of cognitive ability, vocabulary size, measured with the Oxford-Communicative Development Inventory and cognitive executive functions (EF), measured with the Early EF Questionnaire, in a cohort of 8–38-month-olds’. Teodora Gliga (pic) et al.
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The role of sleep in prospective associations between parent reported youth screen media activity and behavioral health
Paper from the CAMH journal – ‘We examined whether sleep mediated the association between screen media activity and youth behavioral health among a community sample’. Darlynn M. Rojo-Wissar (pic) et al.
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Variation in sleep profiles in children with ADHD (Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder) and associated clinical characteristics
Open Access paper from the JCPP – ‘We examined the profiles of sleep difficulties in children with ADHD and associated clinical factors (e.g. co-occurring mental health conditions, stimulant use and parent mental health).’ Emma Sciberras (pic) et al.
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Sub-types of insomnia in adolescents: Insights from a quantitative/molecular twin study
Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – ‘Insomnia with short sleep duration has been postulated as more severe than that accompanied by normal/long sleep length. While the short duration subtype is considered to have greater genetic influence than the other subtype, no studies have addressed this question’. Juan J. Madrid-Valero (pic) et al.
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Validation of the Parental Understanding and Misperceptions about BAby’s Sleep Questionnaire using auto-videosomnography
Paper from the JCPP – ‘The current study aimed to (a) develop an assessment tool measuring parental understanding and misperceptions about baby’s sleep (PUMBA-Q); (b) validate the questionnaire using self-report and objective sleep measures.’ Eunyeong Jang et al.
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Infant sleep predicts trajectories of social attention and later autism traits
Open Access paper from the JCPP – ‘We used a prospective longitudinal design in infants with a family history of ASD and/or ADHD to examine infant sleep and its relation to trajectories of attention and later neurodevelopmental disorders.’ Jannath Begum-Ali et al.
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Clinical Review: Sleep disturbance as transdiagnostic mediator between adverse childhood experiences and psychopathology in children and adolescents: A structural equation modeling meta-analysis
Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – ‘The present study used a novel two-stage meta-analytic structural equation model to investigate whether ACEs predict psychopathology through sleep disturbance’. Jianlin Liu et al.
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