The maintenance of wakefulness test in normal healthy subjects

Sleep

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 799-802

  Banks, Siobhan ^a,b   Barnes, Maree ^c   Tarquinio, Natalie ^c   Pierce, Robert J ^c   Lack, Leon C ^a,d   McEvoy, R Doug ^a,b  

^a REPATRIATION GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

^d FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Daytime sleepiness; Maintenance of Wakefulness Test; Normative data

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MAINTENANCE OF WAKEFULNESS TEST; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAMETER; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSORY STIMULATION; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP PARAMETERS; SLEEP STAGE; SNORING; SOMNOLENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TECHNIQUE; WAKEFULNESS;

BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 3042536393     PISSN: 01618105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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