Do chronic primary insomniacs have impaired heat loss when attempting sleep?

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 290, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Gradisar, Michael ^a   Lack, Leon ^a   Wright, Helen ^a   Harris, Jodie ^a   Brooks, Amber ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Core body temperature; Finger temperature

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTICIPATORY ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FINGER; HEAT LOSS; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SLEEP;

ADULT; BODY TEMPERATURE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEAT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 33646467949     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00266.2005     Document Type: Article

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