Awakening and sleep-wake cycle across development / edited by Piero Salzarulo, Gianluca Ficca.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ficca, Gianluca.

Salzarulo, Piero.

Series:

Advances in consciousness research ; v. 38.

Advances in consciousness research, 1381-589X ; v. 38

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Developmental neurobiology.

Sleep-wake cycle.

Physical Description:

vi, 281 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub., c2002.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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).

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

Time pattern analysis of activity-rest rhythms in families with infants using actigraphy

The eyes of parents on infants awakening

Mother-infant relationship as a modulator of night waking

Sleep fragmentation and awakening during development

Arousals and awakenings in infancy

Arousal responses to hypercapnia and hypoxia in infants and children

The scoring of arousals in infants

Index of names

Index of terms

Advances In Consciousness Research.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612255038

9781282255036

1282255037

9780585461298

0585461295

9789027297884

9027297886

OCLC:

705531017