The effects of body posture on resting electroencephalographic activity in sleep-deprived subjects

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 464-470

  Caldwell, John A ^a   Prazinko, Brian F ^a   Hall, Kecia K ^a  

^a Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Body posture; Electroencephalographic activity; Sleep deprived subjects

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALERTNESS; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; SOMNOLENCE; STANDING;

ADULT; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; POSTURE; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0034048901     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(99)00289-8     Document Type: Article

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