Melatonin use in managing insomnia in children with autism and other neurogenetic disorders - An assessment by the international pediatric sleep association (IPSA)

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].
• ² Departments of Neurology and Pediatrics, Sleep Disorders Division, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
• ³ Université Paris Cité, NeuroDiderot, INSERM, 75019, Paris, France.
• ⁴ Department of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Pediatric Translational Medicine Institute, Shanghai Children's Medical Center, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
• ⁵ Pediatric Neurologist and Sleep Medicine MD MsC, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Sleep Lab Coordinator at HOMI Fundacion, Bogota, Colombia.
• ⁶ Universidad Nacional de Colombia and Sleep Medicine, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Sleep Lab Coordinator at Neuroconexión, Armenia, Colombia.
• ⁷ Psychology and Paediatric Sleep, Appleton Institute of Behavioural Science, CQUniversity Australia, Adelaide, Australia; School of Educational Psychology and Counselling, Faculty of Education, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
• ⁸ Division of Respiratory Medicine, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, 555 University Avenue, Toronto, M4S 2V6, Ontario, Canada.
• ⁹ Interdisciplinary Sleep Program & BC Children's Hospital Research Institute, Department of Pediatrics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Department of Pediatrics, Medical University of Vienna, Austria 938 W 28th Avenue Vancouver, Vienna, BC, V5Z 4H4, Australia.
• ¹⁰ Dept of Developmental and Social Psychology, Sapienza University, Via dei Marsi 78, 00185, Rome, Italy.
• ¹¹ Centre for Paedatric Sleep Disorders, Pediatric Department, General Hospital Celje, University of Maribor, Oblakova ulica 5, 3000, Celje, Slovenia.
• ¹² Sleep Center, Division of Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, USA; Department of Pediatric, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, 3333 Burnet Ave, MLC 7041, OH, USA, Cincinnati, OH, 45229, USA.
• ¹³ Titular de Neurologia da Escola de Medicina, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Brain Institute (InsCer), Brazil.
• ¹⁴ Centre for Innovation in Mental Health, School of Psychology, Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK; Clinical and Experimental Sciences (CNS and Psychiatry), Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.