Psychological stress is associated with heightened physiological arousal during NREM sleep in primary insomnia

Behavioral Sleep Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 178-193

  Hall, Martica ^a   Thayer, Julian F ^b   Germain, Anne ^a   Moul, Douglas ^a   Vasko, Raymond ^a   Puhl, Matthew ^c   Miewald, Jean ^a   Buysse, Daniel J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SLEEP STAGE;

ADULT; AROUSAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS; SLEEP STAGES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 38349182041     PISSN: 15402002     EISSN: 15402010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15402000701263221     Document Type: Article

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