Pediatric Sleep Medicine Comes Into Its Own

Novel Technique Shows When the Fertilized Egg’s Genome Comes into Its Own

0958 You might say that a mother’s infl uence begins even before her offspring were just a twinkle in dad’s eye. During egg cell development (called oogenesis), the mother deposits gene products—consisting largely of messenger RNAs (mRNAs) and some proteins—into the developing egg. These mRNAs take over after fertilization to orchestrate the earliest stages of embryogenesis. As the embryo devel...

Rural medicine: its own specialty?

Sleep medicine: no sleeper when it comes to profits.

• Increased consumer focus on sleep by education, regulation and patient selfawareness.7 Sleep medicine is a relatively new field that was officially recognized in the 1960s. Today, an estimated 50 million to 70 million Americans suffer from sleep-related problems.1 The first sleep disorder clinic was opened in 19702 at Stanford University by William Dement, MD. Today more than 2,000 sleep cent...

Treatment efficacy in behavioral pediatric sleep medicine.

Behavioral interventions have been identified as the treatment of choice for many forms of pediatric sleep disturbance. We adopt criteria established by the Task Force on Promotion and Dissemination of Psychological Procedures (1996) to evaluate the literature base describing behavioral interventions for pediatric sleep disturbance. Three well-established interventions, one promising interventi...

Methods in pediatric sleep research and sleep medicine.

Several methods are used to evaluate sleep in infants, children, and adolescents including: Questionnaires and diaries, actigraphy, polysomnography, and electroencephalography which are well established. Novel approaches such as high-density electroencephalography, simultaneous electroencephalography-functional magnetic resonance imaging and nonpharmacological methods aiming for a modulation of...