The development of sleep-wake rhythms and the search for elemental circuits in the infant brain

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 250-263

  Blumberg, Mark S ^a   Gall, Andrew J ^b   Todd, William D ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Circadian rhythm; Nile grass rat; Norway rat; Suprachiasmatic nucleus; Ultradian rhythm

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; DORSOMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; HOMEOSTASIS; INFANT; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; REM SLEEP; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; SLEEP PATTERN; SLEEP QUALITY; SLEEP TIME; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; TEGMENTUM; ULTRADIAN RHYTHM; WAKEFULNESS; ANIMAL; BRAIN STEM; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FOREBRAIN; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; PERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SLEEP;

ACTIVITY CYCLES; ANIMALS; BRAIN STEM; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; HUMANS; INFANT; PROSENCEPHALON; SLEEP; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 84901824919     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0035891     Document Type: Article

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