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The identification of a 90-100 min rhythmicity in sleep parameters — rapid eye movements, body motility and EEG (Aserinsky and Kleitman, 1953; Dement and Kleitman, 1957) — which persist when sleep is consumed during the light span, suggested to Kleitman (1963) that this cycle could be a fraction of a more generalized oscillatory phenomenon, acting both during sleep and wakefulness, defined as the Basic Rest-Activity Cycle (BRAC). Kleitman (1981) recently reviewed literature produced in the past two decades showing evidence of ultradian rhythmicity in various physiological functions in man, giving credits to the original BRAC hypothesis. The present work studies ultradian rhythmicity in the auditory reaction time test in man.
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Stampi, C., Stegagno, L. (1985). Ultradian Rhythms in Auditory Reaction Time. In: Redfern, P.H., Campbell, I.C., Davies, J.A., Martin, K.F. (eds) Circadian Rhythms in the Central Nervous System. Satellite Symposia of the IUPHAR 9th International Congress of Pharmacology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07837-0_21
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