Nighttime drop in body temperature: A physiological trigger for sleep onset?

Sleep

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 505-511

  Murphy, Patricia J ^a,b   Campbell, Scott S ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Core body temperature; Disentrainment; Sleep

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CORE TEMPERATURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NIGHT SLEEP; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0030759125     PISSN: 01618105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sleep/20.7.505     Document Type: Article

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