Sleep Disorders

After winning the 2022 Philadelphia Marathon, Amber Zimmerman, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher in the Division of Human Genetics, has her sights set on gold.

This week’s In the News highlights research on MIS-C, an association between serotonin and heart valve disease, a genetic basis for sleep disorders, and neonatal resuscitation guidelines.

With a new grant from the National Institutes of Health, researchers are investigating racial disparities in children with co-occurring sleep disorders.

Children who have sleep problems in early and/or middle childhood are at risk for behavioral and emotional problems later in childhood.

Researchers at CHOP are studying whether impaired sleep during adolescence has an effect on bone density.

Carole Marcus, MBBCh, held virtually every leadership position in pediatric sleep medicine at some point during her abbreviated career and received accolades for her research.

New research by a sleep expert at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia shows that a high prevalence of a spectrum of sleep problems occurs across all months of pregnancy, and that napping during the day should be considered the norm for moms-to-be.