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Peirano P, Fagioli I, Bes F, et al. The role of slow-wave sleep on the duration of quiet sleep in infants. J Sleep Res. 1993;2(3):130-133doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2869.1993.tb00075.x.
Peirano, P., Fagioli, I., Bes, F., & Salzarulo, P. (1993). The role of slow-wave sleep on the duration of quiet sleep in infants. Journal of sleep research, 2(3), 130-133. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2869.1993.tb00075.x
Peirano, et al. "The role of slow-wave sleep on the duration of quiet sleep in infants." Journal of sleep research vol. 2,3 (1993): 130-133. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2869.1993.tb00075.x
Peirano P, Fagioli I, Bes F, Salzarulo P. The role of slow-wave sleep on the duration of quiet sleep in infants. J Sleep Res. 1993 Sep;2(3):130-133. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2869.1993.tb00075.x. PMID: 10607083.
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J Sleep Res. 1993 Sep;2(3):130-133. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2869.1993.tb00075.x.

The role of slow-wave sleep on the duration of quiet sleep in infants.

Journal of sleep research

Peirano, Fagioli, Bes, Salzarulo

Affiliations

  1. Unidad de Neurofisiologia del Desarrollo, INTA, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.

PMID: 10607083 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2869.1993.tb00075.x

Abstract

The duration of quiet sleep (QS) phases has been shown to increase during the first year of life. Slow-wave sleep (SWS) appears in about half of the QS phases beyond 20 weeks. In order to evaluate the role of SWS in the lengthening of QS phase duration during the first year of life, we looked at 48 normal full-term infants (aged between 1 and 54 weeks), recorded for a whole-night period. Records included electro-encephalogram (EEG) and other polygraphic parameters. Infants were separated into two groups: (1) those who did not show SWS episodes at all, and (2) those who show both QS phases with (QS SWS+) and without (QS SWS-) SWS episodes. In group 2 the duration of QS SWS+ was longer than that of QS SWS, as well as longer than that of QS of group 1. Group 1 had a duration of QS phases similar to that of QS SWS-. The duration of QS SWS+ depended both on the SWS latency and SWS duration. The lengthening of QS phases with age is accounted for by those phases containing SWS episodes, reflecting a maturational restructuring of QS.

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