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Development of circadian sleep‐wakefulness rhythmicity of three infants

 

作者: Kenji Tomioka,   Fumiko Tomioka,  

 

期刊: Journal of Interdisciplinary Cycle Research  (Taylor Available online 1991)
卷期: Volume 22, issue 1  

页码: 71-80

 

ISSN:0022-1945

 

年代: 1991

 

DOI:10.1080/09291019109360100

 

出版商: Taylor & Francis Group

 

关键词: Human circadian rhythm;development;early infancy;sleep‐wakefulness

 

数据来源: Taylor

 

摘要:

The spontaneous sleep‐wakefulness behavior of three infants (one male and two females) from the same parents, normal with respect to pregnancy and delivery, was observed continuously from 2–14 days after birth up to 4 months of life. The infants were allowed to feed and sleep according to their own schedule. One of them supplied another sample of clear freerunning circadian rhythmicity during the first postnatal month. The least square cosine fitting method and the maximal entropy spectral analysis with high spectral resolution revealed the circadian rhythmicity to exist as early as the first week of life. This fact may suggest that the human circadian clock regulating the daily sleep‐wakefulness rhythm is already functional at birth. It was also found that sleep duration depended on the timing of sleep: the first nighttime sleep being the longest, while the sleep during the early morning and the late afternoon was the shortest. These results are discussed with respect to the development of circadian rhythmicity.

 

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