Current Advances in Paediatric Sleep Medicine (2nd Edition)
A special issue of Children (ISSN 2227-9067). This special issue belongs to the section "Pediatric Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 February 2026 | Viewed by 1166
Special Issue Editors
Interests: paediatric sleep medicine; differential diagnostics; melatonin; history of medicine
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2. Department of Ophthalmology, Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Medical School (FMB) of São Paulo State University, Botucatu, Brazil
Interests: sleep apnea; paediatric sleep medicine; otolaryngology; pattern recognition in medicine
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Due to the success and enthusiastic response to the first edition of our Special Issue, entitled “Current Advances in Paediatric Sleep Medicine”, we cordially invite you to report on your further findings relating to all areas of paediatric sleep medicine and psychology. With the second edition of our Special Issue, we aim to move closer to the goal of better understanding the connection between sleep and health in children and being able to recognise and influence it as part of evolutionarily determined chronological rhythms.
This raises the following questions: Why do children sleep? What effects does healthy sleep have on memory formation, growth, and metabolic processes? What common biological constants can be identified despite cultural differences? What key messages should be communicated to families so that healthy sleep contributes to children's health and creativity? What basic principles in diagnosis and therapy should continue to be taken into account? What new diagnostic and therapeutic approaches are available? What opportunities and limitations do diagnostic procedures involving artificial intelligence offer?
We welcome informative case reports, case series, randomised studies, epidemiological data, systematic reviews, study designs, and references to your own research that show how the methodological approach to the phenomenon of children's sleep has evolved. Can you recall any impressive situations in which help was provided? How are these patients doing today? Have previous recommendations proven to be effective? What methods and basic attitudes are necessary to ensure that the expertise of specialists is integrated into interdisciplinary concepts, and can these be understood and implemented in collaboration with the patients concerned?
Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have a project idea that is ready for publication but have not yet decided on the form and scope of the manuscript.
We look forward to receiving your submissions.
Prof. Dr. Ekkehart Paditz
Prof. Dr. Silke Anna Theresa Weber
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- paediatric sleep medicine
- infant sleep
- adenoidectomy
- tonsillotomy
- orthodontic appliances
- non-hospital ventilation
- cognitive behavioural therapy
- melatonin
- epistemology
- differential diagnostics
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