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Front. Sleep
Sec. Pediatric and Adolescent Sleep
Volume 3 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/frsle.2024.1440677
This article is part of the Research Topic Insights in Pediatric and Adolescent Sleep View all 4 articles

Sleep in the First 1,800 Days of Life: A Critical Factor in Health and Development that Deserves More Attention

Provisionally accepted
Stephen Sheldon Stephen Sheldon 1*Judith Owens Judith Owens 2
  • 1 Department of Pediatrics, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States
  • 2 Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon.

    Keywords: Pediatrics, Sleep, neurodevelopment, synaptogenesisis, brain maturation

    Received: 29 May 2024; Accepted: 09 Aug 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Sheldon and Owens. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Stephen Sheldon, Department of Pediatrics, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, 60611, Illinois, United States

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