Patterns of spontaneous and evoked body movements during sleep.
Two sleep-related movement periodicities were found in 5,742 pooled actigrams: in spontaneous movements and in movements evoked by aircraft noise. The former appeared to be associated with stage 3 + 4 sleep and the latter with rapid eye movement sleep.
Horne
J A
JA
Sleep Research Laboratory, Loughborough University, Leicestershire, U.K.
Reyner
L A
LA
Pankhurst
F L
FL
Hume
K I
KI
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001143:Arousal; D015331:Cohort Studies; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009068:Movement; D009622:Noise; D012895:Sleep, REM