McLaughlin Crabtree Valerie, Williams Natalie A
Department of Behavioral Medicine, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Place, Mail Stop 101, Memphis, TN 38105, USA.
Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am. 2009 Oct;18(4):799-811. doi: 10.1016/j.chc.2009.04.013.
This article reviews the normal development of sleep in infants, children, and adolescents, with specific focus on both the subjective and objective aspects of sleep. Notably, sleep duration decreases substantially from infancy through adolescence with increased consolidation of sleep to the nighttime period only. Sleep architecture exhibits developmental changes with decreases in slow-wave sleep and increases in stage 2 sleep from childhood through adolescence. Although the development of sleep is a dramatic and relatively rapid process during the first decades of life, changes in sleep continue across the life span.
本文回顾了婴儿、儿童和青少年睡眠的正常发育情况，特别关注睡眠的主观和客观方面。值得注意的是，从婴儿期到青春期，睡眠时间大幅减少，且睡眠仅在夜间更加集中。睡眠结构呈现出发育变化，从儿童期到青春期，慢波睡眠减少，2期睡眠增加。尽管在生命的头几十年里，睡眠发育是一个显著且相对快速的过程，但睡眠变化在整个生命周期中持续存在。
