Sleep Cyclic Alternating Pattern in Normal Preschool-Aged Children

Oliviero Bruni, Raffaele Ferri, Silvia Miano, Elisabetta Verrillo, Elena Vittori, Benedetto Farina, Arianna Smerieri, Mario Giovanni Terzano

SLEEP · 2005 · 63 citations · 0 references

Abstract

The analysis of CAP in preschool-aged children is characterized by an increase of CAP rate during slow-wave sleep and a high percentage of A1 phases and A2 phases. However, the lower percentage of A1 paralleled by an increase of A2 could represent a signal of higher sleep instability in this age group as compared with prepubertal school-aged children.