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Article: Change in Rapid Eye Movement (REM) Sleep in Response to Exposure to All-Night Noise and Transient Noise.
- Article from:
- Archives of Environmental Health
- Article date:
- September 1, 1999
- Author:
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THE SLEEP POLYGRAPH provides many indicators of sleep disturbance by noises, including prolonged sleep latency (i.e., time from the commencement of a planned sleep and its actual onset); increased number of awakenings; increased movement time (MT), which is a special sleep stage caused, in part, by body movement; decreased slow-wave sleep, which is also termed deep sleep and includes sleep stages 3 and 4; and increased stage shifts (i.e., sleep stage changes from one stage to another) to shallower stages. These indicators should be characterized in terms of dose-effect relationships or by minimum effective dose of noise on sleep in environmental health.
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