Associations Between Sleep-Wake Consolidation and Language Development in Early Childhood: A Longitudinal Twin Study
Author(s) -
Ginette Dionne,
Évelyne Touchette,
Nadine ForgetDubois,
Dominique Petit,
Richard E. Tremblay,
Jacques Montplaisir,
Michel Boivin
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
sleep
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.222
H-Index - 207
eISSN - 1550-9109
pISSN - 0161-8105
DOI - 10.5665/sleep.1148
Subject(s) - language development , longitudinal study , developmental psychology , early childhood , twin study , sleep deprivation , sleep (system call) , psychology , demography , cohort , pediatrics , medicine , cohort study , population , audiology , heritability , psychiatry , biology , cognition , pathology , environmental health , sociology , computer science , genetics , operating system
The objectives were (1) to assess associations between sleep consolidation at 6, 18 and 30 months and language skills at 18, 30, and 60 months; and (2) to investigate the genetic/environmental etiology of these associations.
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