Specific eating and sleeping problems in Prader‐Willi and Williams‐Beuren syndrome

摘要

SummaryEating and sleeping problems have a high prevalence in mental retardation in general, but are also discussed as characteristic in some genetically determined disorders. A comparative analysis of eating and sleeping behaviours in 28 Prader‐Wilii and 32 Williams‐Beuren syndrome children by psychometric instruments confirms excessive food‐seeking behaviours in PWS and selective food refusal in WBS as specific problems. in both syndromes, however, there is considerable Individual variability in these sym