The first-night effect occurs at the sleep-onset period regardless of the temporal anxiety level in healthy students

Sleep and Biological Rhythms

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 92-94

  Tamaki, Masako ^a   Nittono, Hiroshi ^a   Hori, Tadao ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electroencephalogram stages; First night effect; Sleep onset period; Temporal anxiety

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP STAGE; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 27844502211     PISSN: 14469235     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-8425.2005.00167.x     Document Type: Article

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