• Sleep · Dec 1994

    Electromyographic activity and sleep states in infants.

    • B Liefting, F Bes, I Fagioli, and P Salzarulo.
    • Faculteit Psychologie, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
    • Sleep. 1994 Dec 1; 17 (8): 718-22.

    AbstractThe electromyographic (EMG) activity in infants was studied in relationship to sleep states and age using an automatic method. One night of sleep in 23, healthy, full-term infants was recorded. Based on 10-second measures of chin EMG activity, two parameters were derived: 1) the tonic EMG and 2) the EMG instability (corresponding to phasic events). Age comparisons were made between young (2-11 weeks) and older infants (21-47 weeks) and between two subgroups of young infants (2-3 weeks and 7-11 weeks). State comparisons were made between paradoxical sleep (PS) and quiet sleep (QS) and, for the older infants, between QS with and without slow-wave sleep. QS tonic level did not differ either between age groups or between QS+ and QS- phases. The EMG instability was larger in PS than in QS for all age groups, and larger in the young than in the older infants, although within the group of young infants no differences between age subgroups were found.

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