Challenging the sleep homeostat: Sleep in depression is not premature aging

Sleep Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 933-945

  Frey, S ^a   Birchler Pedross, A ^a   Hofstetter, M ^a   Brunner, P ^a   Gotz T ^a   Munch M ^a   Blatter, K ^a   Knoblauch, V ^a   Wirz Justice, A ^a   Cajochen, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Constant routine; EEG slow wave activity; High sleep pressure; Major depression; Melatonin secretion; Subjective sleepiness

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN;

ADULT; AGING; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELTA RHYTHM; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; NONREM SLEEP; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; SALIVA LEVEL; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; SLEEP PATTERN; SLEEP QUALITY; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SLOW WAVE SLEEP; THETA RHYTHM; WAKEFULNESS;

ADULT; AGED; AGING, PREMATURE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; MELATONIN; MIDDLE AGED; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SALIVA; SLEEP; SLEEP STAGES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863865838     PISSN: 13899457     EISSN: 18785506     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2012.03.008     Document Type: Article

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