Failure of timed bright light exposure to alleviate age-related sleep maintenance insomnia

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 617-623

  Suhner, Andrea G ^a   Murphy, Patricia J ^a   Campbell, Scott S ^a,b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Circadian rhythm; Light treatment; Sleep disturbance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORE TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MALE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SLEEP; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY TEMPERATURE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PHOTOTHERAPY; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SLEEP; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 0036220321     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1532-5415.2002.50154.x     Document Type: Article

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