Body movements during night sleep in healthy elderly subjects and their relationships with sleep stages

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 393-397

  Gori, Sara ^a   Ficca, Gianluca ^b   Giganti, Fiorenza ^b   Di Nasso, Ilaria ^b   Murri, Luigi ^a   Salzarulo, Piero ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ageing; Body movements; Motility; Sleep

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BODY MOVEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR CORTEX; MULTICHANNEL RECORDER; NIGHT SLEEP; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; SLEEP STAGE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SLEEP STAGES;

EID: 3042697983     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2003.12.012     Document Type: Article

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