Sleep and Developmental Psychopathology

Lisa J. Meltzer is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at National Jewish Health, USA. She is board certified in Behavioral Sleep Medicine by the American Board of Sleep Medicine and is the co-author of Pediatric Sleep Problems: A Clinician’s Guide to Behavioral Interventions (2015). She also has a funded program of research examining the impact of sleep on health outcomes in youth with chronic illnesses and their parents, the development and validation of objective and subjective measures of pediatric sleep, and the impact of changing school start times on health outcomes.

Introduction: Sleep and Developmental Psychopathology 1. Sleep Architecture Relates to Daytime Affect and Somatic Complaints in Clinically Anxious but Not Healthy Children 2. Stage 2 Sleep EEG Sigma Activity and Motor Learning in Childhood ADHD: A Pilot Study 3. A Preliminary Multimethod Comparison of Sleep Among Adolescents With and Without Generalized Anxiety Disorder 4. Does an Online CBT Program for Anxiety Impact Upon Sleep Problems in Anxious Youth? 5. Sleep Moderates the Association Between Response Inhibition and Self-Regulation in Early Childhood 6. Sleep and Social-Emotional Development in Infants and Toddlers 7. Sleep in Adolescents With Bipolar I Disorder: Stability and Relation to Symptom Change 8. Sleep Duration and Child Well-Being: A Nonlinear Association 9. Tracking Effects of Problematic Social Networking on Adolescent Psychopathology: The Mediating Role of Sleep Disruptions 10. ADHD and Sleep Quality: Longitudinal Analyses From Childhood to Early Adulthood in a Twin Cohort 11. Future Directions in Sleep and Developmental Psychopathology