Sleep Medicine Center

The Center for Sleep Medicine specializes in diagnosing, evaluating, and treating children and babies with various sleep disorders, including:  trouble falling and staying asleep, sleep deprivation, narcolepsy, oversleeping, awakening disorders, night terrors, sleepwalking, biological clock timing disorders, and more.

The center specializes in assessing and treating uncommon sleep disorders related to timing, breathing, oxygenation, and ventilation. 

Respiratory function evaluations during sleep are conducted in patients with chronic lung diseases, alongside various syndromes like cystic fibrosis, Familial Dysautonomia, Rett syndrome, and more. Additionally, individuals with spinal injuries or certain diseases that result in muscle weakness, limiting their ability to breathe, as well as children affected by injuries impacting the respiratory center (such as Congenital Central Hypoventilation Syndrome) and breathing disorders caused by brain tumors.  In addition to conditions that impact the brain stem and disrupt breathing patterns, like Chiari malformation, and treatments for severe sleep disorders in children on the autism spectrum.

The physicians at the Sleep Center are specialists in pediatrics, respiratory and lung diseases in children, and pediatric intensive care, and possess extensive expertise in the field of sleep disorders for children.

Who is a sleep test for? 

Children who snore while sleeping, particularly those with suspected respiratory arrest during sleep.

Babies who snore or have breathing issues during sleep and fail to gain weight without a clear medical cause found in a medical investigation.

Children who are being monitored by an ear, nose, and throat specialist due to snoring and enlarged tonsils and adenoids (also known as negative tonsils), who are being considered for possible surgical intervention. A sleep test in these cases can assess the severity of the problem and its meaning. It also makes it possible to assess the need and relative urgency of the surgical intervention.

• Children and babies who struggle to fall asleep or frequently wake up during the night, and those who have trouble falling back asleep after waking up in the middle of the night or early morning.
• Children who find it difficult to wake up in the morning.
• Children who experience excessive fatigue and tend to fall asleep during kindergarten or school, or later in the day.
• Children who experience sleep timing disorders and a lack of synchronization of their biological clock, including night awakenings, various syndromes, or diseases of the nervous system.
• Children who display restlessness resembling hyperactivity, without having ADHD with hyperactivity or any other apparent cause.
• Children who walk, talk, or shout in their sleep.
• Children who experience leg movements or abnormal mobility during sleep.
• Children with nightmares. 
• Children with chronic respiratory diseases, for the purpose of assessing their breathing, adjusting oxygen supplementation, and adjusting assistive devices for breathing while sleeping.
• Children on the autistic spectrum with sleep disorders, including prolonged nocturnal awakenings, despite various treatments.

The Centre runs a sleep laboratory for children and babies, where we perform various types of sleep tests.