Daytime melatonin administration enhances sleepiness and theta/alpha activity in the waking EEG

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 207, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 209-213

  Cajochen, Christian ^a   Kräuchi, Kurt ^a   Von Arx, Marie Anne ^a   Möri, David ^a   Graw, Peter ^a   Wirz Justice, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Melatonin; Mood; Subjective sleepiness; Waking EEG power density

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMNOLENCE;

EID: 0343807511     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)12517-9     Document Type: Article

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