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President of the Spanish Federation of Sleep Medicine Societies (FESMES), coordinator of the Alianza del Sueño Healthcare Group, and Head of the Pulmonology Department and the Sleep Unit at Osakidetza. Bioaraba Institute
A research team presents a wireless polygraph – colloquially known as a “lie detector” – that attaches to the chest to diagnose stress in adults and sleep disorders in children. According to the study, published in Science Advances, the device is able to identify episodes of waking, hypopnoea and apnoea in children.
A team from the United States has analyzed nearly twenty studies on melatonin use in children between the ages of 0 and 6 in different countries. Although it appears that melatonin can help improve sleep onset in children with neurological conditions such as autism spectrum disorders, the data indicate that in recent years there has been an increase in sales of these products without a clear understanding of their actual effectiveness and potential long-term consequences for typically developing young children. The results are published in JAMA Network Open.