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Disturbed sleep in children with Tourette syndrome: a polysomnographic study |
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| Authors: | Kostanecka-Endress Tatiana Banaschewski Tobias Kinkelbur Jörg Wüllner Ina Lichtblau Sigrid Cohrs Stefan Rüther Eckart Woerner Wolfgang Hajak Göran Rothenberger Aribert |
| Affiliation: | Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of G?ttingen, von-Siebold-Str 5, D-37075 G?ttingen, Germany. |
| Abstract: | OBJECTIVE: To evaluate objective data on sleep quantity/quality and motor activity during night sleep in children with Tourette syndrome (TS). METHOD: Polysomnography of 17 unmedicated TS children (ages: 7;11-15;5, mean: 11;10 years) without comorbid attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) was compared with 16 age-, sex- and IQ-matched healthy controls. Sleep analyses according to the procedure of Rechtschaffen and Kales were supplemented by counting epochs with short arousal-related movements ( |
| Keywords: | Tourette syndrome Polysomnography Sleep Motor activity Arousal Children |
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