Actigraphy-assessed sleep duration and quality and executive function in a sample of typically developing preschoolers.
Sleep is essential for cognitive development and brain maturation during early childhood. Studies focused on preschool populations using objective measures of sleep are still scarce. The objective of this study was to examine the associations between objective measures of sleep duration and quality...
| Publicado en: | European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Vol. 34; no. 4; pp. 1379 - 1391 |
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Springer Nature
Apr2025
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