Sleep Patterns in the Healthy Aged: Relationship with Intellectual Function.

Prinz, Patricia N.

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ERIC Number: EJ153411

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Publication Date: 1977

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Sleep Patterns in the Healthy Aged: Relationship with Intellectual Function

Prinz, Patricia N.

Journal of Gerontology, 32, 2, 179-185, Mar 77

Sleep patterns of elderly subjects (N=12) differed from young adult levels. When sleep variables were compared with individual changes in intellectual function measured across the seventh through 10th decades of life, a positive correlation was found between time in REM sleep and several longitudinal measures of mental functioning. (Author)

Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Gerontology, Intellectual Development, Intelligence, Older Adults, Performance Factors, Research Projects, Sleep

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