Preterm infants prefer to be awake at night

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 312, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 55-57

  Giganti, Fiorenza ^a   Fagioli, Igino ^a   Ficca, Gianluca ^b   Cioni, Giovanni ^c   Salzarulo, Piero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biological rhythms; Motility; Preterm; Wakefulness

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LIFE; MALE; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; NIGHT; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; TIME; VIDEORECORDING; WAKEFULNESS;

AGING; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CRYING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; SLEEP; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 0035851004     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(01)02192-9     Document Type: Article

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