title: Sleep disorders in school-age children.
abstract: This article on school age children reviews relevant issues in sleep physiology, the classification of sleep disorders, their clinical and laboratory assessment, some common sleep disorders, the sleep-epilepsy relationship, as well as the impact of daytime sleepiness on higher cortical functions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Saint Louis University Health Sciences Center, Missouri 63104, USA.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kotagal
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006970:Disorders of Excessive Somnolence / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D017593:Kleine-Levin Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D009290:Narcolepsy / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology; D011379:Prognosis; D012307:Risk Factors; D012891:Sleep Apnea Syndromes / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology; D012894:Sleep Stages / Q000502:physiology*; D012893:Sleep Wake Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000503:physiopathology