Erschienen in:
01.12.2016 | Invited Commentary
A Quarter Century of Research Progress Leads to Answers and New Questions for Women’s Sleep Health
verfasst von:
Katherine M. Sharkey, Amy R. Wolfson
Erschienen in:
Current Sleep Medicine Reports
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Ausgabe 4/2016
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Excerpt
Women sleep differently than men due to physiological, psychological, and social reasons. From estrogen receptor modulation of sleep in the brain, to an increased risk of experiencing the correlated disorders of depression and insomnia, to the impact of poverty and relationship satisfaction on sleep—both biological sex and the construct of female gender affect the timing, quantity, and quality of women’s sleep. It is now known that women sleep longer and report that they need more sleep than men. Furthermore, despite showing higher quality sleep than men in most objective sleep studies, women tend to report more sleep disturbances than men. Although not all of the reasons for these observations are known or understood, we are beginning to make some progress. …