title: The development of sleep during the first months of life.
abstract: The development of sleep during the first months of life is intriguing from a scientific point of view but is interesting to the clinician as well. This review aims at providing data on sleep in "low-risk" premature neonates, neonates born at term, and infants up to the age of 6 months. The various milestones in clinical and polygraphic features of sleep allow for week-to-week assessment of brain function in normal and sick children.
authors.affiliation: Center for Sleep and Wake Disorders, Juliana Children Hospital and MCH, Westeinde Hospital, PO Box 432, 2501 CK, The Hague, The Netherlands. aw@hsr.nl
authors.forename: Al W
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: de Weerd
authors.forename: Renilde A S
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: van den Bossche
mesh_terms: D002657:Child Development / Q000502:physiology*; D004569:Electroencephalography; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D010507:Periodicity; D012890:Sleep / Q000502:physiology*; D013997:Time Factors