Thermoregulatory changes around the time of sleep onset

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 643-647

  Rogers, Naomi L ^a   Bowes, Jeanette ^b   Lushington, Kurt ^b   Dawson, Drew ^b  

^a WOOLCOCK INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Awareness; Core body temperature; Knowledge of bedtime; Peripheral body temperature; Sleep onset; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORE TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RECTUM TEMPERATURE; SLEEP; THERMOREGULATION; TIME;

EID: 33847298167     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2006.11.018     Document Type: Article

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