A prospective study of sleep problems in children with ADHD

Advancing a Biopsychosocial and Contextual Model of Sleep in Adolescence: A Review and Introduction to the Special Issue

“…However, all of these studies were conducted in school-aged children/young adolescents Hansen et al 2011Hansen et al , 2014Lycett et al 2014a, b;Moreau et al 2014) or in samples with a wide age range (ages 5/6-18) (Accardo et al 2012;Sung et al 2008), leaving it unclear how sleep and mental health are interconnected in youth with ADHD during middle and older adolescence when rates of certain mental health problems such as conduct disorder (Merikangas et al 2010), substance use , and depression/ suicidal ideation (Hinshaw et al 2012) are higher. Further, aside from the recent 1-year longitudinal studies by Becker et al (2014) and Lycett et al (2014a), all of the studies completed to date have been cross-sectional, leaving it unclear if comorbidities predict increases in sleep problems (and vice versa) over longer developmental periods or whether comorbid mental health symptoms differentially impact the sleep of adolescents with and without ADHD.…”

Sleep and ADHD: what we know and what we do not know

“…The clinical implications of this study are self-evident: (1) a comprehensive assessment of sleep problems in children with ADHD across followup consultations, rather than just at the first diagnostic assessment, is warranted; (2) the impact of co-morbid internalizing/externalizing disorders, as well as of ADHD medication and caregivers' mental health, should be systematically addressed; and (3) practitioners should make children and parents aware that sleep problems in ADHD might be transient rather than persistent. Therefore, the study by Lycett and colleagues [12] is an important contribution towards what could be considered the 'second phase' of the research on ADHD and sleep, leveraging on the level of information provided by longitudinal studies. At the same time, the study prompts further longitudinal investigation to answer important unknowns in the field.…”

Case of Hyperactive Child

“…Higher frequency of epileptiform discharges in EEG is reported in children with over-activity, behavioural problems and SNHL. [14][15] The prevalence of joint laxity is found to be higher in children with ADHD, gives a new basis for further studies. 16 Such a complex array of comorbid conditions associated with ADHD can be explained by genetic, environmental, structural and functional changes in the nervous system in causing ADHD.…”