Activity, arousal, and the MSLT in patients with insomnia.
Open Access
- 1 January 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Sleep
- Vol. 23 (2) , 1-8
- https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/23.2.1g
Abstract
It has recently been shown that physiological arousal following walking increased sleep latencies during daytime naps as compared to sleep latencies following TV viewing. Patients with insomnia have been shown to have increased physiological arousal and to also have longer MSLT latencies. It was hypothesized that insomnia patients, who are at a higher state of physiological arousal, would be unable to relax while lying in bed and watching TV and therefore would have relatively longer sleep latencies in naps following TV watching (due to inability to relax) as compared to walking.Keywords
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