The adolescent decline of NREM delta, an indicator of brain maturation, is linked to age and sex but not to pubertal stage

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 291, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Feinberg, Irwin ^a   Higgins, Lisa M ^a   Wong, Yu Khaw ^a   Campbell, Ian G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Electroencephalograph; Non rapid eye movement; Sleep

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; GROWTH; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NONREM SLEEP; PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SEXUAL MATURATION;

ADOLESCENT; AGING; BRAIN; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EYE MOVEMENT MEASUREMENTS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PUBERTY; SEX FACTORS; SLEEP, REM; STATISTICS;

EID: 33845451211     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00293.2006     Document Type: Article

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