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Peretz Lavie
Researcher at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Publications - 320
Citations - 22662
Peretz Lavie is an academic researcher from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sleep apnea & Sleep disorder. The author has an hindex of 81, co-authored 320 publications receiving 21532 citations. Previous affiliations of Peretz Lavie include Tel Aviv University & Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
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Melatonin improves sleep-wake patterns in psychomotor retarded children.
TL;DR: Administration of 3 mg melatonin to five severely psychomotor retarded children resulted in a significant improvement in their sleep-wake patterns, and no change in 24-hour total sleep time occurred.
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Melatonin - the key to the gate of sleep
TL;DR: The evidence that melatonin plays a major role in the regulation of the sleep-wake cycle is reviewed and the role of melatonin in the induction of sleep is proposed to be mediated by an inhibition of a wakefulness-producing mechanism in the central nervous system.
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Sleep and Temperament: Maternal Perceptions of Temperament of Sleep-Disturbed Toddlers
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the Toddler Temperament Questionnaire (TTQ) and the child's scales of the Parental Stress Index (PSI) to assess the relation between sleep problems and temperament in infants.
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The enchanted world of sleep
TL;DR: Peretz Lavie as discussed by the authors discusses all that is known about sleep, dreaming, and sleep disorders, including landmark discoveries from his own sleep laboratory, and provides a panoramic view of modern sleep research by a pioneer in the field.
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Endothelial Progenitor Cells in Acute Myocardial Infarction and Sleep-disordered Breathing
TL;DR: Coexistent mild to moderate SDB in patients with AMI increased the mobilization, proliferative and Angiogenic capacities of EPCs, angiogenic T-cell numbers, and vascular endothelial growth factor expression in monocytes compared with patients withAMI without SDB.