Sleepiness is not always perceived before falling asleep in healthy, sleep-deprived subjects

Sleep Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 747-751

  Herrmann, Uli S ^a   Hess, Christian W ^a   Guggisberg, Adrian G ^a   Roth, Corinne ^a   Gugger, Matthias ^a   Mathis, Johannes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Healthy subjects; Maintenance of wakefulness test; Microsleep; Motor vehicle accident; Sleepiness; Subjective sleepiness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KAROLINSKA SLEEPINESS SCALE; MAINTENANCE OF WAKEFULNESS TEST; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; SLEEP PARAMETERS; SOMNOLENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 77955564056     PISSN: 13899457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2010.03.015     Document Type: Article

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