Sleep

Known as: Sleeping, sleeps 
Any process in which an organism enters and maintains a periodic, readily reversible state of reduced awareness and metabolic activity. Usually… (More)
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2016
Review
2016
Consensus Statement of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine on the Recommended Amount of Sleep for Healthy Children: Methodology and Discussion.
ABSTRACT Members of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine developed consensus recommendations for the amount of sleep needed to… (More)
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2016
Review
2016
Associations between sleep duration, sedentary time, physical activity, and health indicators among Canadian children and youth using compositional analyses.
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between movement behaviours (sleep duration, sedentary time, physical… (More)
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2011
Highly Cited
2011
AN ADAPTIVE ENERGY EFFICIENT MAC PROTOCOL FOR WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS
Sensor networks are deployed in remote locations with limited processor capabilities, memory capacities, and battery supplies… (More)
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Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
Self-reported and measured sleep duration: how similar are they?
BACKGROUND Recent epidemiologic studies have found that self-reported duration of sleep is associated with obesity, diabetes… (More)
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Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Sleep duration as a risk factor for the development of type 2 diabetes.
OBJECTIVE Short-term partial sleep restriction results in glucose intolerance and insulin resistance. The purpose of this study… (More)
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2005
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2005
Sleep-dependent memory consolidation
The concept of ‘sleeping on a problem’ is familiar to most of us. But with myriad stages of sleep, forms of memory and processes… (More)
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Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
A prospective study of self-reported sleep duration and incident diabetes in women.
Short-term sleep restriction results in impaired glucose tolerance. To test whether habitually short sleep duration increases the… (More)
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2002
Highly Cited
2002
Mortality associated with sleep duration and insomnia.
BACKGROUND Patients often complain about insufficient sleep or chronic insomnia in the belief that they need 8 hours of sleep… (More)
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Review
1993
Review
1993
Thalamocortical oscillations in the sleeping and aroused brain.
Sleep is characterized by synchronized events in billions of synaptically coupled neurons in thalamocortical systems. The… (More)
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Highly Cited
1971
Highly Cited
1971
The hippocampus as a spatial map. Preliminary evidence from unit activity in the freely-moving rat.
Rats with hippocampal damage are reported to be hyperactive in novel environments, 'perseverative' and resistant to extinction on… (More)
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