Sleep and Early Cortical Development.

Kurth S; Olini N; Huber R; LeBourgeois M

doi:10.1007/s40675-014-0002-8

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Sleep and Early Cortical Development.

Kurth S Sleep and Development Laboratory, Department of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado Boulder, Clare Small Room 114, 354 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-5003, USA, Salome.Kurth@Colorado.EDU.
Olini N Child Development Center, University Children's Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Nadja.Olini@kispi.uzh.ch.
Huber R Child Development Center, University Children's Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
LeBourgeois M Sleep and Development Laboratory, Department of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado Boulder, Clare Small Room 114, 354 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-5003, USA, Monique.LeBourgeois@Colorado.EDU.

2016-01-26

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Current sleep medicine reports. - 2015

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English Sleep is increasingly recognized as a key process in neurodevelopment. Animal data show that sleep is essential for the maturation of fundamental brain functions, and growing epidemiological findings indicate that children with early sleep disturbance suffer from later cognitive, attentional, and psychosocial problems. Still, major gaps exist in understanding processes underlying links between sleep and neurodevelopment. One challenge is to translate findings from animal research to humans. In this review, we describe parallels and differences in sleep and development of the cortex in humans and animals and discuss emerging questions.

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