The scoring of arousals in healthy term infants (between the ages of 1 and 6 months)

Journal of Sleep Research

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 37-41

  Franco, Patricia ^a  

^a University Hospital for Children   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Arousal; Awakening; Cortical; Electroencephalography; Infant; Sleep; Subcortical

Indexed keywords

AROUSAL; CONSENSUS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; INFANT; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; SLEEP; WAKEFULNESS;

AGE FACTORS; AROUSAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EXTREMITIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MOVEMENT; OXIMETRY; SLEEP; SLEEP, REM; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 15444365260     PISSN: 09621105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2869.2004.00426.x     Document Type: Review

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