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The article is devoted to the actual problem of modern pediatrics and neurology ― a comprehensive diagnosis and correction of sleep disorders in children. Detail the features of the clinical manifestations of sleep disorders in childhood (insomnia and parasomnia), great attention is paid to sleep apnea syndrome as a risk factor for somatic and psychopathological disorders in children. Highlight the current capabilities of complex instrumental diagnosis of sleep disorders with the use of highly effective methods of polysomnography and pulse oximetry. The actual dimensions as non-drug and drug treatment of sleep disorders in children, taking into account the pathogenetic features of their occurrence. From the standpoint of evidence-based medicine demonstrate efficient methods of herbal medicine, developed on the basis of traditional Chinese recipes, as well as modern nootropics and magnesium preparations. It is shown that sleep disorders in children not only lead to a deterioration of emotional mood, cognitive function, health and school performance, but also are associated with increasing risk of somatic disorders, which determines the need for timely diagnosis and comprehensive differentiated medical and psychological data correction of pathological conditions, taking into account the neurophysiological and biochemical mechanisms of their development, as well as polymorphism of clinical manifestations, in order to increase the effectiveness of treatment and quality of life of patients.

The article is dedicated to an urgent issue of modern pediatrics and neurology — complex treatment of stroke consequences in children. The article details etiological aspects, pathophysiological mechanisms and clinical peculiarities of stroke consequences in children, the primary among which are asthenic syndrome (73–86% of the patients), movement disorders (33–58%), cognitive disorders (60%), paroxysmal conditions (30%), sensory disorders (14%), emotional-volitional and behavioral disorders (17–38%), vegetative dysfunction syndrome (60–74%), pain syndrome (53–74%) and syncopal conditions (12%). The article details the main spheres of complex rehabilitation of children with stroke consequences, including use of innovative medical rehabilitation technologies — kinesitherapy, dynamic proprioceptive correction, mechanotherapy using robotic systems, physiotherapy and drug correction. The article demonstrates that diagnosis and treatment of stroke consequences in children is a difficult problem, which requires a differential complex approach in order to improve effectiveness of both drug therapy and rehabilitation and quality of life of the patients.

The article gives scientific data on the development of cognitive brain functions in children in relation to their clinical significance and application: variants and regularities of development in normal state, pathology and at their boundary; pathological development of cognitive performance; origination and transformation of main symptoms and syndromes of cognitive disorders. Prospective and applied in the Center scientific approaches to diagnostics and treatment of cognitive disorders taking into consideration their development in age dynamics are given in detail. A complex of measures on the improvement of cognitive health in children and adolescents in the Russian Federation is suggested on the analysis results.

The results of the review of studies on the polypeptide nootropic neurometabolic stimulator in a complex correction of cognitive impairment in children with diseases of the central nervous system are given in the article. It is shown that cognitive-modulating effect is the leading feature of the drug, and in a combination with nootropic, neurotrophic, neuroprotective, reparative and anticonvulsive effects, as well as antioxidant, anti-stress and metabolic actions, which determines its high therapeutic efficacy in a complex correction of cognitive impairment in various central nervous system diseases in children.