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Dr. Ipsiroglu investigated the possible causes of intractable insomnia in children and youth with neurodevelopmental conditions. Through the application of family ecology and ethnography in clinical and home studies, Dr. Ipsiroglu illustrates how conventional categorical diagnoses that ignore the inter-relationship of night-time and daytime behaviours can produce systemic gaps in healthcare.

A randomly-selected Doctoral citation each day: today from the Doctor of Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Studies (PhD) - graduated in 2016