Sleeping Like a Baby—Does Gender Influence Infant Arousability? | Zendy

Heidi L. Richardson | Zendy; Adrian M. Walker | Zendy; Rosemary S.C. Horne | Zendy

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Sleeping Like a Baby—Does Gender Influence Infant Arousability?

Author(s) -

Heidi L. Richardson,

Adrian M. Walker,

Rosemary S.C. Horne

Publication year - 2010

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/33.8.1055

Subject(s) - polysomnography , arousal , sudden infant death syndrome , medicine , pulsatile flow , pediatrics , endocrinology , physiology , psychology , apnea , neuroscience

Victims of the sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) may have preexisting abnormalities in their arousal pathways, inhibiting the progression of subcortical activation (SCA) to full cortical arousal (CA). Approximately 60% of SIDS victims are male, and it has been suggested that male infants have delayed cortical maturation compared to females. We hypothesized that CA frequency would be lower and CA threshold would be higher in male infants during both active (AS) and quiet (QS) sleep.

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