Not exact matches
The amazing
relationship between supine
sleeping and SIDS can
seen in the trend that SIDS level plateau around 2001.
Moreover, at birth the infant's breathing i.e. respiratory system is also not yet fully developed, as regards complete control of both voluntary and involuntary breathing and the
relationship between the two systems especially during
sleep (
see McKenna et al 2007 for explanation and McKenna 1986); nor is the infant's thermo - regulatory system developed as the infant is unable to shiver, for example, to keep its own body warm.
«There seems to be a causal
relationship between impaired
sleep and some of the psychiatric symptomatology and disorders that we're
seeing,» says Robert Stickgold, an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School who was not involved in this study.
He says that big differences in
sleep patterns
between evolutionary groups can swamp
relationships found within those groups (
see graph, below right).
«In the clinic we really do
see a reciprocal
relationship between fibromyalgia and
sleep quality,» says Lesley Arnold, PhD, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral neuroscience at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.