Sleep/wake cycles in the dark: Sleep recorded by polysomnography in 26 totally blind subjects compared to controls

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 113, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1607-1614

  Leger, Damien ^a,b   Guilleminault, Christian ^b   Santos, Carmen ^c   Paillard, Michel ^a  

^a Centre du Sommeil Hotel Dieu   (France)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c IRIS Institut de Recherches Internationales Servier   (France)

Author keywords

Actigraphy; Blindness; Free running rhythms; Polysomnography; Sleep logs; Sleep wake

Indexed keywords

6 HYDROXYMELATONIN O SULFATE; MELATONIN;

ACTIMETRY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; BRAILLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL BLINDNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRONEUROLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NIGHT SLEEP; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS; REM SLEEP; SALIVA ANALYSIS; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP TIME; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; URINALYSIS;

ADULT; BLINDNESS; DARKNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; MELATONIN; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONS; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDERS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 0036801190     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(02)00221-3     Document Type: Article

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