Carole L. Marcus

TL;DR: Healthy children have wide variation in upper airway neuromuscular compensatory responses and arousal thresholds that could represent intermediate phenotypes affecting the expression of sleep apnea, and children with robust upper airways responsiveness, or a very high arousal threshold, may be able to sustain minute ventilation when challenged with negative airway pressure.

TL;DR: Elevated PLMS are common in children with SCD and are associated with sleep disruption and symptoms of RLS, and future research into the time structure of PLMS, their causes and consequences, and development of a disease-specific sleep disorders screening questionnaire, is needed.

TL;DR: Obese adolescents with OSAS show impaired executive and behavioral function compared to obese and lean controls, and are more likely to score in the clinically abnormal range on measures of neurobehavioral functioning.

TL;DR: Findings suggest that, in children with non-respiratory sleep disorders, polysomnography should be a part of a comprehensive sleep evaluation in selected circumstances to determine the nature of the events in more detail or when the suspicion of OSA is relatively high.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the efficacy of Adenotonsillectomy (AT) as a treatment for sleep-disordered breathing in obese and nonobese children with adenoidal and/or tonsillar hypertrophy.