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Adults with Prader-Willi Syndrome: Abnormalities of Sleep and Behaviour

Author(s) -

David Clarke,

Jerome F. Waters,

John A. Corbett

Publication year - 1989

Publication title -

journal of the royal society of medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.38

H-Index - 81

eISSN - 1758-1095

pISSN - 0141-0768

DOI - 10.1177/014107688908200108

Subject(s) - obesity , sleep (system call) , pediatrics , medicine , insomnia , audiology , psychiatry , psychology , computer science , operating system

A survey of 32 adult females and 31 adult males with Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) shows that sleep disorders (including excessive day and night time sleep) and behavioural abnormalities, (temper tantrums and deliberate picking of sores) are common. These abnormalities are not related to the degree of obesity or to each other. Speech disorders also occur. Intelligence quotients are often within the normal range.

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