Sleep and ADHD: What we know and what we do not know
Cortese, Samuele
Cortese, Samuele
Abstract
The awareness of a link between sleep disturbances and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is not novel at all. In 1957, Laufer and Denhoff wrote: “Generally the parents of hyperkinetic children are so desperate over the night problems that the daytime ones pale in significance” [1]. Indeed, sleep alteration (‘Moves about excessively during sleep’) was listed in the attention-deficit disorder Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders III (DSM-III) criteria [2]. On the grounds of their poor specificity for ADHD, sleep problems were then removed from ADHD criteria of subsequent DSM editions, which likely contributed to a certain neglect of the relationship between sleep and ADHD.
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2015
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Cortese, S. (2015). Sleep and ADHD: What we know and what we do not know. Sleep Medicine, 16 (1), pp.5-6.