TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2005//
TI  - Sleep alterations in childhood victims of sexual and physical abuse
JO  - Cirugia y Cirujanos
A1  - Collado-Corona, Miguel Angel
A1  - Loredo-Abdalá, Arturo
A1  - Serrano-Morales, Jorge Luis
A1  - Shkurovich-Bialik, Paul
A1  - Shkurovich-Zaslavsky, Mario
A1  - Arch-Tirado, Emilio
SP  - 297
EP  - 301
VL  - 73
IS  - 4
N2  - INTRODUCTION: The abused child syndrome is related to a variety of emotional disorders, among which are the "post-traumatic stress syndrome" and the phenomena "re-experience," which is related to disturbances of the normal sleep-wake cycle. OBJECTIVE: To determine the polysomnographic characteristics of the abused child syndrome and compare them with paired healthy children. MATERIAL AND METHODS: After two-night habituation, all-night video-digital polygraphic recordings following recommendations of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology were performed in 15 abused child syndrome and 15 healthy controls. RESULTS: In the abused child syndrome patients, the main sleep changes were decreased sleep efficiency, decreased sleep onset sleep latency, increased wakefulness, decreased REM sleep and total sleep time. CONCLUSIONS: The abused child syndrome have abnormal sleep patterns, independent of the type of abuse, age or sex. Sleep alterations are a new characteristic of the abused child syndrome, not previously described.<p /> <p>Language: es</p>
LA  - es
SN  - 0009-7411
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -