Word recall correlates with sleep cycles in elderly subjects

Journal of Sleep Research

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 185-188

  Mazzoni, Giuliana ^a,c   Gori, S ^b   Formicola, G ^a   Gneri, C ^b   Massetani, R ^b   Murri, L ^b   Salzarulo, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c Dipartimento di Scienze Farmaceutiche   (Italy)

Author keywords

Elderly; Memory; NREM REM cycles

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NONREM SLEEP; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; SLEEP PATTERN; WORD RECOGNITION;

AGED; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SLEEP, REM; VOCABULARY; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 0032876785     PISSN: 09621105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2869.1999.00154.x     Document Type: Article

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