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Beth Malow, MD shares current research updates on sleep and autism.
Free certificates of participation are available upon successful completion of a brief knowledge quiz at autism.org/sleep-into-community-settings
Handouts are online at autism.org/sleep-into-community-settings
Dr. Malow is Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Prior to joining the faculty at Vanderbilt, Malow was a tenured associate professor of Neurology at the University of Michigan and director of the Sleep Medicine Fellowship Program and the General Clinical Research Center Sleep Program. She received her B.S. degree from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL in 1984 and her M.D. from Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago. She then did her internship in Medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY from 1987-88. Her residency in the Harvard-Longwood Neurological Training Program in Boston, MA from 1988-91 was followed by a fellowship in epilepsy, EEG, and sleep at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD from 1991-94. Learn more about Dr. Malow
In this webinar:
1:00 – Introduction and case study
6:45 – Multifactorial sleep problems
12:13 – Emotion regulation and sleep
17:20 – Parent trainings for insomnia
23:00 – Sleep resistance and night waking
29:30 – Sleep education multicenter trials
36:30 – Medications
37:45 – Summary
39:00 – Q&A
Beth Malow, MD shares current research updates on sleep and autism.
Free certificates of participation are available upon successful completion of a brief knowledge quiz at autism.org/sleep-into-community-settings
Handouts are online at autism.org/sleep-into-community-settings
Dr. Malow is Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Prior to joining the faculty at Vanderbilt, Malow was a tenured associate professor of Neurology at the University of Michigan and director of the Sleep Medicine Fellowship Program and the General Clinical Research Center Sleep Program. She received her B.S. degree from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL in 1984 and her M.D. from Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago. She then did her internship in Medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY from 1987-88. Her residency in the Harvard-Longwood Neurological Training Program in Boston, MA from 1988-91 was followed by a fellowship in epilepsy, EEG, and sleep at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD from 1991-94. Learn more about Dr. Malow
In this webinar:
1:00 – Introduction and case study
6:45 – Multifactorial sleep problems
12:13 – Emotion regulation and sleep
17:20 – Parent trainings for insomnia
23:00 – Sleep resistance and night waking
29:30 – Sleep education multicenter trials
36:30 – Medications
37:45 – Summary
39:00 – Q&A
