A NOTE ON THE NIGHT-TO-NIGHT STABILITY OF STAGES 3-SLEEP IN HEALTHY OLDER ADULTS - A COMPARISON OF VISUAL AND SPECTRAL EVALUATIONS OF STAGES 3+4-SLEEP(4)

Authors
LARSEN LH MOE KE VITIELLO MV PRINZ PN
Citation
Lh. Larsen et al., A NOTE ON THE NIGHT-TO-NIGHT STABILITY OF STAGES 3-SLEEP IN HEALTHY OLDER ADULTS - A COMPARISON OF VISUAL AND SPECTRAL EVALUATIONS OF STAGES 3+4-SLEEP(4), Sleep, 18(1), 1995, pp. 7-10
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Behavioral Sciences","Clinical Neurology
Journal title
Sleep → ACNP
ISSN journal
01618105
Volume
18
Issue
1
Year of publication
1995
Pages
7 - 10
Database
ISI
SICI code
0161-8105(1995)18:1<7:ANOTNS>2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
Night-to-night variability in the minutes of slow-wave sleep (SWS: com bined minutes of stages 3 and 4 sleep) was examined for 50 healthy adu lts: 23 women (56-82 years old) and 27 men (54-74 years old). Visually rated SWS was more variable night to night than computer-evaluated SW S using power spectral techniques. The night-to-night correlation of t he visually rated SWS was 0.61. The night-to-night correlation of the spectrally evaluated SWS was 0.91.