Does television viewing cause delayed and/or irregular sleep-wake patterns?

Sleep and Biological Rhythms

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 23-27

  Asaoka, Shoichi ^a   Fukuda, Kazuhiko ^b   Tsutsui, Yuji ^b   Yamazaki, Katuo ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FUKUSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Elderly people; Sleep wake patterns; Television viewing; University students

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAYTIME SOMNOLENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP TIME; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; TELEVISION VIEWING; UNIVERSITY STUDENT;

EID: 33846322960     PISSN: 14469235     EISSN: 14798425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-8425.2006.00253.x     Document Type: Article

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