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Sleep‐wake rhythm of autistic children
Author(s) -
TAKASE MIKI,
TAIRA MASAO,
SASAKI HIDEO
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1440-1819
pISSN - 1323-1316
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1819.1998.tb01017.x
Subject(s) - rhythm , psychology , wake , audiology , sleep (system call) , developmental psychology , medicine , computer science , operating system , engineering , aerospace engineering
Using a sleep log for 28 days in the summer vacation, 89 autistic children living in a suburb of Tokyo were examined. Only one girl of 13 years showed a tendency of non‐24 h Sleep‐wake syndrome. Most autistic children showed a large variation of total sleep time. Forty per cent of subjects showed 10% or more on coefficient of variation of total sleep time. In the retiring and rising time, many subjects tended to show late retiring and early rising.