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Review
. 2019:79 Suppl 3:25-28.

[Sleep in children: physiology and update of a literature review]

[Article in Spanish]
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  • PMID: 31603839
Free article
Review

[Sleep in children: physiology and update of a literature review]

[Article in Spanish]
Mandeep Rana et al. Medicina (B Aires). 2019.
Free article

Abstract

Sleep is an active and cyclic physiological process that has a critical impact on health. Its functions are numerous: growth, development, learning, memory, synaptic efficiency, regulation of behavior, emotion, immune strengthening and cleaning time of neurotoxic substances. During the first years of life, there are a number of important changes in development, which lead to the expected pattern of sleep and wakefulness in adults. The sleep occupies a third of the adult's life. However, sleeping during the first months of life takes up more than 50% of time. This review of the topic will describe normal sleep patterns in childhood.

El sueño es un proceso fisiológico activo y cíclico que tiene efectos críticos en la salud. Sus funciones son numerosas: crecimiento, desarrollo, aprendizaje, memoria, eficiencia sináptica, regulación del comportamiento, emoción, fortalecimiento inmunológico y tiempo de limpieza de sustancias neurotóxicas. Durante los primeros años de vida hay una serie de cambios importantes en el desarrollo que conducen al patrón esperado de sueño y vigilia en los adultos. El sueño ocupa un tercio de la vida del adulto. Sin embargo, dormir durante los primeros meses de vida ocupa más del 50% del tiempo. Esta revisión del tema describirá los patrones normales de sueño en la infancia.

Keywords: pediatrics; physiology; sleep.

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