Sleep Disorders in Children and Young People

Last updated 6 October 2021

This collection of Research Digests about sleep contains content from ACAMH’s two main academic outputs the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Mental Health.

You can download a PDF of these Digests from the January 2019 edition of The Bridge.

Individual digests are presented below in date order, with the most recent first.

Sleep problems from infancy are linked with impaired well-being in middle childhood
Insufficient sleep might affect children’s emotional health
The DSM-5 criteria for DMDD overlook children with context-specific impairing irritability
Insufficient sleep during adolescence might pose a risk for later depression and anxiety
Poor sleep quality in adolescence might contribute to poor psychological functioning
Does DNA methylation link sleep disturbances to mental health problems?
Do we remember more when learning before bedtime?
Variable sleep schedules might put preschoolers at risk of academic difficulties
Lost sleep contributes to mood disturbances in teens with ADHD
Improvements of adolescent psychopathology after insomnia treatment: Results from a randomized controlled trial over one year.
Sleep partially mediates the link between adverse childhood experiences and delinquency
Sleepiness in adolescence is associated with criminal behaviour in adulthood
Sleep problems in preschoolers predict depression and anxiety severity
Day-time naps promote vocabulary growth in early childhood
Cortical hyperarousal in children may predict insomnia in adolescence
Prescribing in the dark: off-label drug treatments for children with insomnia
Time spent awake during the night in infancy is a marker for cognitive trajectories

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