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Brain, Vol. 123, No. 3, 654-655, March 2000
© 2000 Oxford University Press

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ATLAS OF SLEEP MEDICINE IN INFANTS AND CHILDREN.

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Dr Stuart Boyd and Dr Bernard Dan

Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK University Children's Hospital, Queen Fabiola, Brussels, Belgium

The importance of sleep and its disorders is increasingly recognized, with a growing demand for more precise diagnosis, since sleep-related problems can be extremely disruptive within the family. There is a consensus that polysomnography is the technique of choice which yields clinically useful information in this context. Major technological improvements and greater availability of recording equipment have contributed to the relatively recent development of sleep medicine.

Children tend to present with a different set of problems from adults and, as ever, interpretation is made more complex by maturational factors. In the introduction to this atlas, the authors make the point that sleep . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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