An assessment of sleep architecture as a function of degree of handedness in college women using a home sleep monitor

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 186-197

  Propper, Ruth E ^a   Lawton, Nicole ^a   Przyborski, Matt ^a   Christman, Stephen D ^b  

^a MERRIMACK COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

Handedness; Methodology; Mixed handed; NREM; REM; Sleep

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLLEGE; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DATA ANALYSIS; HANDEDNESS; HEMISPHERE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONITOR; MORPHOLOGY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONREM SLEEP; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; SLEEP; WAKEFULNESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DATA COLLECTION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MICROCOMPUTERS; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SLEEP STAGES; SLEEP, REM; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 1642420475     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2004.01.004     Document Type: Article

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