Body movements during night sleep and their relationship with sleep stages are further modified in very old subjects

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 66-69

  Giganti, Fiorenza ^a   Ficca, Gianluca ^b   Gori, Sara ^c   Salzarulo, Piero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aging; Body movements; Motility; Sleep

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MULTICHANNEL RECORDER; NIGHT SLEEP; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; SLEEP STAGE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMAN BODY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; SLEEP STAGES;

EID: 37349086086     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2007.07.022     Document Type: Article

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