Sleep and wake patterns in aircrew on a 2-day layover on westward long distance flights

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 596-602

  Lowden, Arne ^a,b,c,d   Åkerstedt, Torbjörn ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d IPM ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRPLANE CREW; ALERTNESS; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOB PERFORMANCE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SLEEP TIME; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SOMNOLENCE; TIME PERCEPTION; WAKEFULNESS;

ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SLEEP; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; TIME FACTORS; TRAVEL;

EID: 0031798953     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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