Seasonal changes in human sleep-wake rhythm in Antarctica and Japan

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 361-362

  Usui, Akira ^a   Obinata, Ichio ^b   Ishizuka, Yoshikazu ^a   Okado, Tamio ^a   Fukuzawa, Hitoshi ^a   Kanba, Shigenobu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Circadian rhythm; Light; Seasonal variation; Sleep wake rhythm

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTARCTICA; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SEASONAL VARIATION; SLEEP INDUCTION; SLEEP PATTERN; SLEEP TIME; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; WINTER;

ADULT; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; EXPEDITIONS; HUMANS; JAPAN; LIGHT; MALE; SEASONS; SLEEP STAGES;

EID: 0033946791     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1819.2000.00715.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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