Insomnia in Children
@article{Younus2002InsomniaIC, title={Insomnia in Children}, author={Mohammed Salim Younus and Michael J. Labellarte}, journal={Pediatric Drugs}, year={2002}, volume={4}, pages={391-403} }
Insomnia in children is a nonspecific impairing symptom that may be the result of normal developmental changes, psychosocial duress, a sleep disorder, a psychiatric disorder, other medical disorders, substance misuse, or an adverse effect of medication. Careful clinical assessment of insomnia in children may include the use of symptom rating scales, laboratory testing, or other medical assessment.Short- and long-term treatment of insomnia in children involves management of etiological factors…
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- 2018
A tentative guide for the use of drugs for insomnia in children with NDDs is provided and well-controlled studies employing both objective polysomnography and subjective sleep measures are needed to determine the efficacy, effectiveness, and safety of the currently prescribed pediatric sleep medicines.
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- Medicine, PsychologyExpert opinion on pharmacotherapy
- 2019
This narrative review, the authors highlight and summarize the most common drugs and supplements used for the treatment of sleep problems in children with neurodevelopmental disabilities and recommend the use of melatonin and melatonin receptor agonists, sedating antidepressants, antipsychotics, antihistamines, gabapentin, clonidine and orexin receptor antagonists, and benzodiazepines and hypnotic Benzodiazepine receptor agonist.
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- 2014
Insomnia during adolescence and pediatric insomnia associated with psychiatric comorbidity, cognitive disabilities and epilepsy, will be discussed in terms of diagnosis, clinical features and implications for treatment.
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Use of medications for pediatric insomnia should be diagnostically driven, and should be implemented in conjunction with empirically-based behavioral treatment strategies and adequate sleep hygiene and additional research is critically needed to provide an evidence-based approach.
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- Psychology, Medicine
- 2010
A start at an evidence‐based background for practical and rational prescribing in this area of common childhood psychopathology is attempted, focusing on important clinical issues and predicaments.
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The findings indicate that behavioral therapies produce reliable and durable changes and support is provided for graduated extinction, bedtime fading/positive routines, and scheduled awakenings.
[Anxiety associated with substance abuse].
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- 2016
One of the best approaches to the treatment of chronic anxiety disorders in drug treatment clinic is a long course of treatment with antidepressants, primarily with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors as first line preparations.
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