Arousal threshold determination in 1862: Kohlschütter's Measurements on the Firmness of Sleep

Sleep Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 417-422

  Basner, Mathias ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arousal; Deep sleep; Noise; Sleep depth; Threshold

Indexed keywords

AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; NONREM SLEEP; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; SLEEP; SLEEP STAGE; SOUND INTENSITY; TRAFFIC NOISE;

AROUSAL; GERMANY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUMANS; PHYSIOLOGY; SLEEP; SLEEP MEDICINE SPECIALTY; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 77949914333     PISSN: 13899457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2009.10.002     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Loomis A.L., Harvey E.N., Hobart G.A. Cerebral states during sleep, as studied by human brain potentials. J Exp Psychol 1937, 21(2):127-144.
2. Bonnet M.H., Doghramji K., Roehrs T., Stepanski E.J., Sheldon S.H., Walters A.S., et al. The scoring of arousal in sleep: reliability, validity, and alternatives. J Clin Sleep Med 2007, 3(2):133-145.
3. Bonnet M.H. Effect of sleep disruption on sleep, performance, and mood. Sleep 1985, 8(1):11-19.
4. Davis H., Davis P.A., Loomis A.L., Harvey E.N. Electrical reactions of the human brain to auditory stimulation during sleep. J Neurophysiol 1939, 2(6):500-514.
5. Williams H.L., Hammack J.T., Daly R.L., Dement W.C., Lubin A. Responses to auditory stimulation, sleep loss and the EEG stages of sleep. Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol 1964, 16:269-279.
6. Coleman P.D., Gray F.E., Watanabe K. EEG amplitude and reaction time during sleep. J Appl Physiol 1959, 14(3):397-400.
7. Kohlschütter E. Messungen der Festigkeit des Schlafes. Zeitschrift für rationelle Medicin 1863, 17(3):209-253.
8. Fechner G.T. Elemente der Psychophysik (Zweiter Theil) 1860, von Breitkopf und Härtel, Leipzig, Germany.
9. Hermann, DL. Elements of human physiology, 5th (translated from German by Arthur Gamgee), Smith, Elder, & Co., London, GB, 1875.
10. Patrick G.T.W., Gilbert J.A. On the effects of sleep loss. Psychol Rev 1896, 3(5):469-483.
11. Basner M, Elmenhorst E-M, Maaß H, Müller U, Quehl J, Vejvoda M. Single and combined effects of air, road and rail traffic noise on sleep. Proceedings of the 9th International Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem (ICBEN), Foxwoods, CT, USA, July 19-25, 2008: 463-470.
12. Michelson E. Untersuchungen über die Tiefe des Schlafes. In: Kraepelin E, Psychologische Arbeiten, Leipzig, 1899, p. 84-117.
13. Mönninghoff O., Piesbergen F. Messungen über die Tiefe des Schlafes. Zeitschrift für Biologie 1883, 19(1):114-128.
14. Rechtschaffen A, Kales A, Berger RJ, Dement WC, Jacobsen A, Johnson LC, Jouvet M, Monroe LJ, Oswald I, Roffwarg HP, Roth B, Walter RD. A manual of standardized terminology, techniques and scoring system for sleep stages of human subjects. Public Health Service, U.S. Government, Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1968.
15. Swan T.H. A note on Kohlschütter's curve of the " depth of sleep" Psychol Bull 1929, 26(10):607-610.
16. Horne J.A. Why we sleep: the function of sleep in humans and other mammals 1988, Oxford University Press, Oxford GB.
17. Mollicone D.J., van Dongen H.P.A., Rogers N.L., Dinges D.F. Response surface mapping of neurobehavioral performance. Testing the feasibility of split sleep schedules for space operations. Acta Astronautica 2008, 63(7):833-840.
18. Borbely A.A. A two process model of sleep regulation. Hum Neurobiol 1982, 1(3):195-204.
19. Chronik der Königlichen vereinigten Friedrichs-Universität Halle-Wittenberg für das Universitätsjahr vom 1. April 1905 bis zum 31. März 1906, Buchdruckerei des Waisenhauses, Halle (Saale), Germany, 1906.
20. Kohlschütter E. Mechanik des Schlafes. Zeitschrift für rationelle Medicin 1869, 19(3):42-48.