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The classical International Association for the Study of Pain definition of pain [9] as a subjective, emotional experience that is described in terms of tissue damage, depends on the patient being able to self-report pain, which is little use in diagnosing and treating pain in babies. More significant are non-verbal responses, of which there ...
Infant sleep in the first year can be categorised into active sleep (AS) and quiet sleep (QS). Active sleep is similar to the adult REM sleep in that it is characterised by eye and other kinds of movement; however, unlike adults in REM, infants tend to enter AS at the beginning of their sleep cycle, as opposed to the end of it like REM in ...
This is physically characterized by the fussing and crying of babies. [23] After three months of life, babies do not respond to physical examinations with the HPA stress response system. However, babies can still respond to behavioral distress. [23] As another example, if blood is drawn from a baby, the baby experiences an increased cortisol ...
During the final painful contractions which lead to the expulsion of the infant, some women have become extremely angry. Before the introduction of effective pain relief (1847), obstetricians were familiar with this, and referred to it under names like parturient rage, furor uterinus, Wut der Gebärenden and colère d'accouchées. Some mothers ...
Behavioral problems in childhood include the so-called regulatory problems, such as excessive crying, sleeping, and feeding problems, which occur in 20% of infants in multiproblem families. Excessive crying, whining and sleeping problems at 4–6 months are associated with decreased social development at 12 months.
Sleep apnea is the second most frequent cause of secondary hypersomnia, affecting up to 4% of middle-aged adults, mostly men. Upper airway resistance syndrome (UARS) is a clinical variant of sleep apnea that can also cause hypersomnia. [8] Just as other sleep disorders (like narcolepsy) can coexist with sleep apnea, the same is true for UARS.
Image credits: Mou Vince #2. You get into bed and are preparing for a good sleep. You feel like you wanna pee. It's cold out there, so you decide to hold it back.
Like adults, children can experience anxiety disorders; between 10 and 20 percent of all children will develop a full-fledged anxiety disorder prior to the age of 18, [107] making anxiety the most common mental health issue in young people. Anxiety disorders in children are often more challenging to identify than their adult counterparts, owing ...