Social, emotional and cognitive mirror image of autism from interdisciplinary perspective APVV-0254-11, principal investigators: RNDr. Silvia Lakatošová, PhD., MUDr. Katarína Babinská, PhD., MSc.
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AUTHORS: Bartakovičová, K., Keményová, P., Belica, I., Janík Szapuová, Ž., Stebelová, K., Waczulikova, I., Ostatnikova, D., Babinska, K. ABSTRACT: In children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), sleep disturbances are a frequent comorbidity with an adverse effect on their behavior and functioning. It was suggested that melatonin deficit is at least partly responsible for the sleep
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Children with ASD often have trouble sleeping. Their causes can be different, one of the theories assumes disruption of circadian rhythms (so-called internal biological clocks). This theory is evidenced by the differences in the levels of melatonin – a hormone that is involved in the regulation of biorhythms depending on changes in light intensity during
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