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Clinical Trial
. 1999 Sep-Oct;54(5):336-40.
doi: 10.1080/00039899909602497.

Change in rapid eye movement (REM) sleep in response to exposure to all-night noise and transient noise

T Kawada  1 , S Suzuki
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Clinical Trial

Change in rapid eye movement (REM) sleep in response to exposure to all-night noise and transient noise

T Kawada et al. Arch Environ Health. 1999 Sep-Oct.

Abstract

Several experiments conducted by the authors revealed certain characteristic changes in stage rapid-eye-movement sleep in response to noise exposure. Continuous and all-night exposure to noise first decreased the percentage of rapid-eye-movement stage at Leg 45dBA. In contrast, the threshold of shifts from the rapid-eye-movement stage in response to intermittent noise was higher than thresholds noted for slow-wave sleep or stage-2 sleep. We concluded that these results indicated that a silent environment is required to maintain the duration of rapid-eye-movement sleep, even though rapid-eye-movement sleep is stable and is not influenced easily by noise.

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