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Is sleep the red flag to psychopathology’s bull?
Author(s) -
Gradisar Michael,
Gregory Alice M.,
Tikotzky Liat
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/jcpp.13331
Subject(s) - privilege (computing) , psychology , psychiatry , sleep (system call) , sleep medicine , psychopathology , value (mathematics) , psychoanalysis , sleep disorder , law , machine learning , political science , computer science , operating system , cognition
‘Hippocrates flagged the value of sleep for good health’ was the first line of the Annual Research Review (ARR) by Gregory and Sadeh (2016) in this journal, titled Sleep problems in childhood psychiatric disorders – a review of the latest science . Where Hippocrates has been referred to as the ‘Father of Medicine’, Professor Avi Sadeh has been respected as a ‘Father of Paediatric Sleep Medicine’ by those who had the privilege to meet him or read his science. Sadly, Avi Sadeh passed away in the same year this ARR was published. What he left behind was a legacy – including his predecessors (Professor Mary Carskadon), successors and those he inspired, who could be guided by the key findings from his 2016 ARR. These include (a) greater attention to the assessment of sleep in children; (b) sleep research on a wider range of psychiatric disorders; (c) a greater focus on and examination of mechanisms underlying associations; (d) a clearer consideration of developmental questions; and (e) large‐scale well‐designed treatment studies.