Sleepiness as a need for sleep: When is enough, enough?

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 108-118

  Horne, Jim ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Multiple Sleep Latency Test; Psychomotor Vigilance Test; Sleep; Sleep debt; Sleep need; Sleepiness; Statistical significance

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ALERTNESS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DAYTIME SOMNOLENCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MULTIPLE SLEEP LATENCY TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOMOTOR VIGILANCE TEST; REVIEW; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; SLEEP TIME; SOMNOLENCE; STANFORD SLEEPINESS SCALE; WAKEFULNESS;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; PERCEPTION; PHOTOPERIOD; SLEEP; TIME FACTORS; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 70350217765     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2009.07.009     Document Type: Review

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