Journal
DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
Volume 34, Issue 5, Pages 560-573Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/87565640903133509
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- National Center for Research Resources, National Institutes of Health [1 UL1 RR024975]
- Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research in Human Development
- National Alliance for Autism Research
- NATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH RESOURCES [UL1RR024975, KL2RR024977, TL1RR024978] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Sleep concerns are common in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). We identified objective sleep measures that differentiated ASD children with and without parental sleep concerns, and related parental concerns and objective measures to aspects of daytime behavior. ASD poor sleepers differed from ASD good sleepers on actigraphic (sleep latency, sleep efficiency, fragmentation) and polysomnographic (sleep latency) measures, and were reported to have more inattention, hyperactivity, and restricted/repetitive behaviors. Fragmentation was correlated with more restricted/repetitive behaviors. This work provides the foundation for focused studies of pathophysiology and targeted interventions to improve sleep in this population.
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