ABSTRACT
Margeaux M. Schade Department of Psychology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA. Address: 1124 Life Sciences Building, 53 Campus Drive, Morgantown, WV 26506
Christopher E. Bauer Center for Neuroscience, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA. Address: Center for Neuroscience, 1 Medical Center Drive, Morgantown, WV 26505
Colleen N. Warren Department of Psychology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA. Address: 1124 Life Sciences Building, 53 Campus Drive, Morgantown, WV 26506
Hawley E. Montgomery-Downs Department of Psychology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA. Address: 1124 Life Sciences Building, 53 Campus Drive, Morgantown, WV 26506
Corresponding author: Hawley E. Montgomery-Downs, E-mail: Hawley. Montgomery-Downs@mail.wvu.edu
ABSTRACT
Pediatric sleep has played a pivotal role in the advancement of modern sleep science. In fact, the celebrated discovery and naming of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep was first described in infants (Aser-
insky and Kleitman, 1953a; Aserinsky and Kleitman, 1953b; Aserinsky and Kleitman, 1955b; Datta and MacLean, 2007) although eye motility, body twitching and reports of dreaming had been previously documented (Berrien, 1930). The contemporary study of pediatric sleep is moving the field toward an understanding of sleep’s broader developmental impact and ability to adaptively respond to environmental insult across the lifespan. Our goal with this chapter is to provide a synopsis of pediatric sleep, including recording methodology, normative parameters, clinical considerations and current issues.
