Open AccessThe Increase in Longitudinally Measured Sleepiness Across Adolescence is Related to the Maturational Decline In Low-Frequency EEG Power
Author(s) -
Ian G. Campbell,
Lisa M. Higgins,
Jeffrey M. Trinidad,
Pamela Richardson,
Irwin Feinberg
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
sleep
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.222
H-Index - 207
eISSN - 1550-9109
pISSN - 0161-8105
DOI - 10.1093/sleep/30.12.1677
Subject(s) - electroencephalography , audiology , psychology , medicine , developmental psychology , psychiatry
A changing sleep schedule that reduces sleep duration is thought to produce the increasing daytime sleepiness of adolescents. We tested the hypothesis that adolescent daytime sleepiness also results from adolescent brain maturational processes indexed by declining delta electroencephalographic (EEG) activity.
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