Passive body heating and sleep: influence of proximity to sleep
TLDR
The results indicate that body heating induces temporary changes that affect sleep propensity and both the quantity and temporal distribution of delta activity in the sleep EEG.Abstract:
Previous studies have found enhanced delta sleep following body heating. This study assessed the influence of body heating as a function of its proximity to sleep. Electroencephalogram (EEG) sleep patterns were compared following body heating (1 h immersion in water at 41 degrees C) at each of four times of day: morning (MO), afternoon (AF), early evening (EE), and late evening (LE), ending just prior to sleep. A delta filter/integrator system provided objective measures of delta content. Relative to baseline nights, whole-night delta sleep was increased by the two evening heating sessions only, particularly LE heating. Following LE, the increased delta occurred primarily in the first sleep cycle, whereas EE heating elicited increased delta distributed across the later sleep cycles (cycles 2-4). Effects on manually staged indices of slow wave sleep (SWS) were confined to increases in Stage 4 in the first sleep cycle following LE heating. Heating just prior to sleep also resulted in a substantial reduction in the duration of the first rapid eye movement sleep period. Sleep onset time was reduced by heating, particularly EE heating. The results indicate that body heating induces temporary changes that affect sleep propensity and both the quantity and temporal distribution of delta activity in the sleep EEG.read more
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