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Title Awakening and sleep-wake cycle across development / edited by Piero Salzarulo, Gianluca Ficca
Published Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub., ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 281 pages) : illustrations
Series Advances in consciousness research, 1381-589X ; v. 38
Advances in consciousness research ; v. 38. 1381-589X
Contents Awakening and Sleep-Wake Cycle across Development; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Awakening; Development of wakefulness; Methodological issues in the study of arousals and awakenings during sleep in the human infant; Awakenings from infants' sleep; Arousals in infants during the first year of life; Spontaneous arousal and awakening in preterm and full-term infants; Awakening and sleep-wake cycle in infants; Awakenings in school-age children; Awakenings, sleep-wake cycle and thermal environment in neonates
Summary Annotation Sleep and wakefulness undergo important changes with age. Awakening, a crucial event in the sleep-wake rhythm, is a transition implying complex physiological mechanisms. Its involvement in sleep disturbances is also well known. This collective volume is the first attempt to systematically approach awakening across development. A methodological section considers criteria to define awakening in a developmental perspective. Theoretical considerations on development of wakefulness and on its relation to consciousness are included and provide a vigorous impulse to go beyond present criteria and classifications. Age changes are the core of studies on development: a section of the book examines old and new data from preterm to infants up to children, underscoring the main turning points along this developmental path. As for other aspects of development, awakening and the sleep-wake cycle are also influenced by external factors, both physical and human. Several contributions deal with this topic, in particular focusing on the parent-infant interaction and the influences of culture. Clinical contexts offer an opportunity to show both quantitative and qualitative changes of awakening and arousals in different pathological conditions. Either partial changes of one physiological variable or global and massive changes can be observed. (Series B)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes English
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Subject Sleep-wake cycle.
Developmental neurobiology.
MEDICAL -- Neuroscience.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Neuropsychology.
Developmental neurobiology
Sleep-wake cycle
Form Electronic book
Author Salzarulo, Piero
Ficca, Gianluca
ISBN 0585461295
9780585461298
9781588111746
1588111741
9027297886
9789027297884
9786612255038
661225503X
1282255037
9781282255036