Sleeping like a baby - Does gender influence infant arousability?

Sleep

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1055-1060

  Richardson, Heidi L ^a   Walker, Adrian M ^a   Horne, Rosemary S C ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arousal; Gender; Infant; SIDS; Sleep

Indexed keywords

AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME; AGE; BRAIN CORTEX; NEWBORN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SLEEP; SLEEP STAGE; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH;

AGE FACTORS; AROUSAL; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SLEEP; SLEEP STAGES; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH;

EID: 77955612093     PISSN: 01618105     EISSN: 15509109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sleep/33.8.1055     Document Type: Article

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