INVESTIGADORES
DIAMBRA Luis Anibal
artículos
Título:
Long-term oscillations in the sleep/wake cycle of infants
Autor/es:
L. DIAMBRA; C.P. MALTA; A CAPURRO
Revista:
PHYSICA A - STATISTICAL AND THEORETICAL PHYSICS
Editorial:
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
Referencias:
Año: 2009 vol. 388 p. 4727 - 4735
ISSN:
0378-4371
Resumen:
The development of circadian sleep/wakefulness rhythm was investigated by alongitudinal study of six normal infants. We propose an entropy based measure forthe sleep/wake cycle fragmentation. Our results confirm that the sleep/wake cyclefragmentation and the sleep/wake ratio decrease, while the circadian power increasesduring the maturation process of infants. In addition to these expected linear trends in thevariables devised to quantify sleep consolidation, circadian power and sleep/wake ratio,we found that they present infradian rhythms in the monthly range.
