Sleep responses to light and dark are shaped by early experience

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1262-1273

  Prichard, J Roxanne ^a   Fahy, Jennifer L ^a,b   Obermeyer, William H ^a,b   Behan, Mary ^a,c   Benca, Ruth M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ALERTNESS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENCE; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; NONREM SLEEP; REM SLEEP; SHEEP; SLEEP; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM; WAKEFULNESS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DARKNESS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; LIGHTING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RATS; SLEEP; SLEEP, REM; TIME FACTORS; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 9644283191     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.118.6.1262     Document Type: Article

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