Can sleep deprivation studies explain why human adults sleep?

Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 541-545

  Brown, Lee K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

basic science of sleep; cognition; emotion; immunity; memory; sleep

Indexed keywords

ALERTNESS; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; ETHICAL DECISION MAKING; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INCREASED APPETITE; MEMORY; NONREM SLEEP; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REM SLEEP; REVIEW; SLEEP; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING;

ADULT; COGNITION; EMOTIONS; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEMORY; SLEEP; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; SLEEP STAGES;

EID: 84867093456     PISSN: 10705287     EISSN: 15316971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCP.0b013e3283596740     Document Type: Review

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