Abstract

RANA, Mandeep et al. Sueño en los niňos: fisiología y actualizacion de los últimos conocimientos. Medicina (B. Aires) [online]. 2019, vol.79, suppl.3, pp.25-28. ISSN 0025-7680.

Sleep is an active and cyclic physiological process that has a critical impact on health. Its functions are numerous: growth, development, learning, memory, synaptic efficiency, regulation of behavior, emotion, immune strengthening and cleaning time of neurotoxic substances. During the first years of life, there are a number of important changes in development, which lead to the expected pattern of sleep and wakefulness in adults. The sleep occupies a third of the adult’s life. However, sleeping during the first months of life takes up more than 50% of time. This review of the topic will describe normal sleep patterns in childhood.

Keywords : Sleep; Pediatrics; Physiology.

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