Open AccessFemales with Sleep Bruxism Show Lower Theta and Alpha Electroencephalographic Activity Irrespective of Transient Morning Masticatory Muscle Pain
Author(s) -
Susumu Abe,
Maria Clotilde Carra,
Nelly Huynh,
Pierre Rompré,
Gilles Lavigne
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of orofacial pain
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1945-3396
pISSN - 1064-6655
DOI - 10.11607/jop.999
Subject(s) - sleep bruxism , morning , electroencephalography , masticatory force , isometric exercise , analysis of variance , anesthesia , sleep (system call) , non rapid eye movement sleep , polysomnography , psychology , electromyography , alpha (finance) , audiology , medicine , physical therapy , physical medicine and rehabilitation , dentistry , neuroscience , developmental psychology , computer science , operating system , psychometrics , construct validity
To investigate the hypothesis that the presence of transient morning masticatory muscle pain in young, healthy sleep bruxers (SBr) is associated with sex-related differences in sleep electroencephalographic (EEG) activity.