TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1995//
TI  - Case study: sleep and aggressive behavior in a blind, retarded adolescent. A concomitant schedule disorder?
JO  - Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
A1  - Sadeh, A.
A1  - Klitzke, M.
A1  - Anders, T. F.
A1  - Acebo, C.
SP  - 820
EP  - 824
VL  - 34
IS  - 6
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0890-8567
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00004583-199506000-00024
ID  - ref1
ER  -