Sleep loss impairs short and novel language tasks having a prefrontal focus

Journal of Sleep Research

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 95-100

  Harrison, Yvonne ^a   Horne, James A ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Haylings test; Language skills; Neuropsychological tests; Prefrontal cortex; Sleep deprivation; Word fluency

Indexed keywords

ACTIMETRY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE TEST; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SLEEP DEPRIVATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SLEEP DEPRIVATION;

EID: 0031849612     PISSN: 09621105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2869.1998.00104.x     Document Type: Article

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