Open AccessNon-Right Handedness is Associated with More Time Awake After Sleep Onset and Higher Daytime Sleepiness Than Right Handedness: Objective (Actigraphic) and Subjective Data from a Large Community Sample
Author(s) -
Hilde Taubert,
Matthias L. Schroeter,
Christian Sander,
Michael Kluge
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
nature and science of sleep
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.715
H-Index - 34
ISSN - 1179-1608
DOI - 10.2147/nss.s358352
Subject(s) - chronotype , actigraphy , medicine , pittsburgh sleep quality index , epworth sleepiness scale , audiology , sleep (system call) , sleep onset , clinical psychology , insomnia , psychiatry , sleep quality , circadian rhythm , polysomnography , electroencephalography , operating system , computer science
Handedness has been linked to various physiological and pathological phenomena including memory function and psychiatric disorders. Also for sleep, several studies have reported associations. However, large-scale studies including a broad age span of participants and studies analyzing women and men separately are lacking.