Sleep-wake rhythm of autistic children |
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Authors: | MIKI TAKASE MASAO TAIRA HIDEO SASAKI MD |
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Affiliation: | Institute of Special Education, University of Tsukuha, Tsukuba;Musashino Higashi Education Research Institute, Musashino;Kaijoryo Hospital, Asahi, Japan |
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Abstract: | Abstract Using a sleep log for 28 days in the summer vacation, 89 autistic children living in a suburb of Tokyo were examined. Only one girl of 13 years showed a tendency of non-24 h Sleep-wake syndrome. Most autistic children showed a large variation of total sleep time. Forty per cent of subjects showed 10% or more on coefficient of variation of total sleep time. In the retiring and rising time, many subjects tended to show late retiring and early rising. |
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Keywords: | infantile autism retiring time rising time sleep log sleep-wake rhythm |
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