The organization of rapid eye movement activity during rapid eye movement sleep is further impaired in very old human subjects

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 297, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 58-60

  Vegni, C ^a   Ktonas, P ^b   Giganti, F ^a   Ficca, G ^a,c   Trammell, J ^b   Gori, S ^d   Salzarulo, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aging; Rapid eye movement bursts; Rapid eye movement sleep; Rapid eye movements; Sleep organization

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; REM SLEEP DEPRIVATION; SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDER;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HUMANS; SLEEP, REM;

EID: 0035808624     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(00)01636-0     Document Type: Article

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