Preschoolers who get too little sleep may be more likely to have trouble paying attention, controlling their emotions and processing information later in childhood, a new study suggests. By age 7, ...

Previous research has shown that both childhood behavioral issues and poor mental health are highly associated with sleep disturbances; however, their relationship over time has been poorly studied. A ...

Childhood sleep disordered breathing (SDB) presents as isolated respiratory events or episodes of consecutive repetitive events. We hypothesized that the surge in blood pressure (BP) and heart rate ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Acute sleep loss in preschool-age children prompts increased eating and could lead to childhood obesity and a lifetime of adverse habits, according to a ...

Remember when there was a scheduled part of your day strictly reserved for a nap? As long ago as that may have been, little is known about the actual value of naps. And scientists studying sleep say ...

Turns out, bedtime exposure to light leads to lack of sleep in preschoolers. According to a University of Colorado at Boulder study, exposing preschoolers to an hour of bright light before bedtime ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y., Feb. 22 (UPI) -- The less sleep preschoolers get, the more likely it is that they will suffer injuries, a University of Rochester in New York study found. The study, published in ...

One of the first EEG studies to examine how 2- to 5-year-olds process their sleeping environments shows that children recognize sounds heard during naps, paving the way for cochlear implant research.

Parents may feel it's clear that missing a nap means their young children will be grumpy and out-of-sorts, but scientists who study sleep say almost nothing is known about how daytime sleep affects ...