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Sleep Problems In Children
Published in Michael B O’Neill, Michelle Mary Mcevoy, Alf J Nicholson, Terence Stephenson, Stephanie Ryan, Diagnosing and Treating Common Problems in Paediatrics, 2017
Michael B O’Neill, Michelle Mary Mcevoy, Alf J Nicholson, Terence Stephenson, Stephanie Ryan
Rhythmic movement disorder is characterised by repetitive, stereotyped movements of the head, trunk or limbs occurring in sleep. It is commoner in infants and toddlers and is usually transient and self-limiting.
Epilepsy and Sleep Disorders
Published in John W. Scadding, Nicholas A. Losseff, Clinical Neurology, 2011
The most common of the sleep–wake transition disorders are hypnic jerks or myclonic jerks that occur on going to sleep or on waking. They are entirely benign in nature and require no treatment. They can occur in association with other sleep disorders. Rhythmic movement disorder is a collection of conditions occurring in infancy and childhood, characterized by repetitive movements occurring immediately prior to sleep onset that can continue into light sleep. One of the most dramatic is head banging or jactatio capitis nocturna. Persistence of these rhythmic movements beyond ten years of age is often associated with learning difficulties, autism or emotional disturbance, but can occur in other groups.
Investigation of epilepsy
Published in Timothy Betts, Lyn Greenhill, Managing Epilepsy with Women in Mind, 2005
Movement disorders occurring in sleep may be mistaken for epilepsy. Everyone has experienced sudden bodily jerks on falling asleep (motor sleep start) which is normal and physiological, but periodic movements of sleep (nocturnal myoclonus) � a condition in which there are frequent periodic contractions of leg muscles sometimes associated with arousal � can be mistaken for epilepsy, particularly the more severe forms in which movement of other parts of the body may occur. A similar condition is rhythmic movement disorder of sleep in which, during sleep, stereotyped movements of the head or limbs and body rocking may occur. This is common in childhood and may persist into adult life and may be mistaken for epilepsy, as can the restless legs syndrome.
René Cruchet (1875–1959), beyond encephalitis lethargica
Published in Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, 2022
It should be noted that Cruchet considered thumb-sucking, rhythmic movement disorder, stuttering, polydipsia, bed-wetting, sleep-walking, and masturbation as “bad habits” in children that needed to be vigorously corrected. His explanation is as follows: Any bad habit, that is, one that damages either the body’s outer conformity or its physical or moral heath, can only be explained in two ways. The first entails excessive emotionalism, by virtue of which an act, once it enters one’s consciousness, tends to be reproduced solely because of the initial first impression it causes. The second explanation lies in an insufficient will, which, in the presence of a sensation experienced normally, is unable to drive it away, even while recognizing it as dangerous. (Cruchet 1911, 66–67)
Mental Health Diagnoses and Symptoms in Preschool and School Age Youth Presenting to Insomnia Evaluation: Prevalence and Associations with Sleep Disruption
Published in Behavioral Sleep Medicine, 2019
Tori R. Van Dyk, Stephen P. Becker, Kelly C. Byars
Participants included preschool (n = 373; 1.5–5 years old) and school age (n = 300, 6–10 years old) children presenting with their caregiver to an outpatient pediatric behavioral sleep medicine clinic (BSMC) for evaluation between June 2009 to March 2015. All youth were referred to the BSMC based on a primary complaint of sleep disruption. Inclusion criteria included a primary insomnia diagnosis according to International Classification of Sleep Disorders criteria (ICSD; AASM 2005, 2014) and complete data on the Child Behavior Checklist (Achenbach & Rescorla, 2001). Participants were excluded if their primary behavioral sleep medicine diagnosis was not insomnia (i.e., delayed sleep phase disorder, adjustment sleep disorder, parasomnia, rhythmic movement disorder, nocturnal enuresis, idiopathic hypersomnia, and narcolepsy). This excluded relatively few youth (n = 18 for preschoolers and n = 29 for school age youth). To best represent the heterogeneity of youth presenting to insomnia treatment in “real-world” settings, participants were not excluded if they had a comorbid organic sleep disorder or secondary behavioral sleep medicine diagnosis (e.g., parasomnia). Participants’ insomnia symptoms were not better explained by their comorbid sleep-related diagnoses.