Mothers' wakefulness at night in the post-partum period is related to their infants' circadian sleep-wake rhythm

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 305-306

  Nishihara, Kyoko ^a   Horiuchi, Shigeko ^b   Eto, Hiromi ^b   Uchida, Sunao ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b ST LUKE'S INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Actigraph; Infant; Post partum; Sleep logs; Sleep wake rhythm

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PUERPERIUM; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; WAKEFULNESS;

ADULT; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MOTHERS; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 0033948928     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1819.2000.00689.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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