Effect of infant sleeping position on sleep spindles

Journal of Sleep Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 19-24

  Horne, Rosemary S C ^a,b   Egodagamage, Chamali ^a   Cranage, Susan M ^a   Adamson, T Michael ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arousability; Infant; Prone position; Sleep spindles; Sudden infant death syndrome

Indexed keywords

AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; NONREM SLEEP; NORMAL HUMAN; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP PARAMETERS; SLEEP SPINDLE; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME; SUPINE POSITION;

AROUSAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POSTURE; SLEEP; SLEEP STAGES;

EID: 0037335269     PISSN: 09621105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2869.2003.00338.x     Document Type: Article

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