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Sleep-wake processes play a key role in early infant crying

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2005

Oskar G. Jenni
Oskar G. Jenni*
Affiliation:
E. P. Bradley Hospital, Chronobiology and Sleep Research Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown Medical School, Providence, RI02912
*
oskar_jenni@brown.edu
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Abstract:

The crying curve across early infancy may reflect the developing interaction between circadian and homeostatic processes of sleep-wake regulation. Excessive crying may be interpreted as a misalignment of the two processes. On the basis of the proposed mechanism, excessive crying may be an honest signal of need, namely, to elicit parental resources to modulate the behavioral state.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 27 , Issue 4 , August 2004 , pp. 464 - 465
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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