Diurnal variation of spontaneous eye blink rate in the elderly and its relationships with sleepiness and arousal

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 463, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 40-43

  De Padova, Vittoria ^a   Barbato, Giuseppe ^a   Conte, Francesca ^a   Ficca, Gianluca ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aging; Arousal; Circadian rhythms; Dopamine; Sleepiness; Spontaneous eye blink

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALERTNESS; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORE TEMPERATURE; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROOCULOGRAM; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KAROLINSKA SLEEPINESS SCALE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SOMNOLENCE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

AFFECT; AGED; AROUSAL; BLINKING; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; SLEEP STAGES;

EID: 68149182662     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.06.095     Document Type: Article

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