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Temporal Characteristics of Sleep

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Biological Rhythms

Abstract

The mode of viewing sleep as a biological rhythm has not been clearly articulated, although there has been an increasing rapprochement between sleep research and the concepts and methods of biological rhythm research. This chapter first reviews a background of that interrelationship. The prominent phenomena of sleep are then reviewed in terms of the core property of biological rhythms—the temporal characteristics of sleep. These include both the time properties of the patterns of sleep as it appears in the Orcadian cycle and the timing of within-sleep events of the sleep structure. A discussion of the major changes in these time characteristics associated with ontogeny, phylogeny, and time schedules follows. The next section considers the possible extension of ultradian events, seen clearly in sleep, into wakefulness. An exploration of the role of the central nervous system in sleep rhythm-micity concludes the chapter.

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Webb, W.B., Dube, M.G. (1981). Temporal Characteristics of Sleep. In: Aschoff, J. (eds) Biological Rhythms. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6552-9_26

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