@article{ref1,
title="Case study: sleep and aggressive behavior in a blind, retarded adolescent. A concomitant schedule disorder?",
journal="Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry",
year="1995",
author="Sadeh, A. and Klitzke, M. and Anders, T. F. and Acebo, C.",
volume="34",
number="6",
pages="820-824",
abstract="Blind people are prone to suffer from sleep-wake schedule disorders. This report describes 2 months of monitoring of sleep patterns and aggressive behaviors in a totally blind, severely retarded adolescent boy, hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital. The documented sleep-wake patterns seem to portray a sleep-wake schedule disorder with a monthly periodicity. Aggressive behaviors seem to echo the same periodicity, suggesting that a common or linked biobehavioral timing mechanism may underlie both sleep and episodic aggressive outbursts. The need to consider sleep schedule disorders as a primary process underlying some psychopathological disorders, and the related risks of misdiagnosis and mistreatment, are highlighted.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0890-8567",
doi="10.1097/00004583-199506000-00024",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00004583-199506000-00024"
}