Infant Sleep Predicts Attention Regulation and Behavior Problems at 3–4 Years of Age.

1. Infant Sleep Predicts Attention Regulation and Behavior
Problems at 3–4 Years of Age. DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGY,
40(3), 122–137
"We don't know what the underlying causes are for the lower sleep quality and
later behavior regulation problems in these children," said Prof. Sadeh.
How could Professor Sadeh say that?
I was taught as a medical student, 54 years ago, that a sign of brain damage in the
new born was disturbance of habituation. Prof. Hepper [Belfast] has shown that
intrautero exposure to alcohol leads to disturbances of habituation in the fasd
infant.
Disturbance of habituation contributes to disturbed sleep patterns of infants, later
diagnosed with the neurodevelopomental afflictions of FASD; as parents of such
infants and children well know.
Poor infant sleep is not the cause of neurological deficiencies such as impaired
executive functioning rather, with those other neurological deficiencies, it is the
consequence of ubiquitous impairment of brain development; the most common
cause being prenatal alcohol exposure.
Barry Stanley
12th
. Oct. 2015.