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Childhood-onset insomnia

Hauri, Peter, Olmstead, Elaine·1980·Sleep
DOI 10.1093/sleep/3.1.59
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Twenty patients who had been insomniac since childhood were compared with 39 who had become insomniac during adult life. The childhood-onset insomniacs took longer to fall asleep, slept less, and showed excessive amounts of REM sleep without eye movements. Adult-onset insomniacs showed more restless sleep. No differences between childhood- and adult-onset groups were found on personality inventories, but those with childhood-onset insomnia reported more evidence of possible "soft" neurological impairment.

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  • The authors suggest that idiopathic insomnia may be partly defined by the absence of precipitating and maintaining factors and by only minor psychologic abnormalities.

    “IdI is partly defined by the absence of precipitating and maintaining factors, and patients appear to exhibit only minor psychologic abnormalities.”

    From Comparative investigation of the psychophysiologic and idiopathic insomnia disorder phenotypes: Psychologic characteristics, patients' perspectives, and implications for clinical management (2012) · cites this paper as [12]

    In Sleep Variables (page unavailable), most childhood-onset patients could not identify a stress at onset, and the authors report a trend toward less fluctuation with mood than in adult-onset patients. The Discussion (page unavailable) suggests a less psychological basis. But the paper studies childhood-onset insomnia, not idiopathic insomnia as a whole; it does not establish an absence of maintaining factors or that patients have only minor psychological abnormalities. (LLM, conf=0.84)

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  1. [1]1. Association of Sleep Disorders Centers. Diagnostic Classification of Sleep and Arousal Disorders. First Edition, prepared by the Sleep Disorders Classification Committee, HP Roffwarg, Chair- man, Sleep 2:1-137,1979.
  2. [4]4. Feinberg I. Sleep in organic brain conditions. In: A Kales (Ed), Sleep Physiology and Pathology, A Symposium, Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1969, pp 131-147.

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Authors
Hauri, P., & Olmstead, E.
Affiliations
Dartmouth College (US)
Corresponding author
Hauri, Peter
Venue
Sleep
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Published
1980-03
Volume
3
Issue
1
Pages
59-65
ISSN
  • 0161-8105 (ISSN-L)
  • 1550-9109
DOI
10.1093/sleep/3.1.59
OpenAlex
W128708500
Cited by
117
References
6
Citations by year
2025: 1 · 2024: 3 · 2022: 1 · 2020: 3 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 6 · 2012: 8
FWCI
2.19
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • SLEEP (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
National Institute of Mental Health
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Sleep and related disorders
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Obstructive Sleep Apnea Research
Keywords
sleep latency, sleep duration, restless sleep, personality, neurological deficit
MeSH terms
Adult, Age Factors, Child, Humans, Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders, MMPI, Personality Inventory, Sleep, Sleep, REM

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