Sex Differences in Sleep

摘要: There are sex differences in sleep behavior with women reporting more problems and a poorer quality than men across wide age range. The self-reported appears to relate part their increased likelihood experience depression anxiety symptoms social factors such as socioeconomic status. In contrast the self-report findings, polysomnographic recordings show that have better range, suggesting objective subjective assessments tapping into different constructs of sleep. Women less nonrapid eye movement (N1 sleep), fewer awakenings, slow-wave (N3 sleep) activity (SWA, ∼0.4–4.5 Hz) within electroencephalograph men. higher level SWA is apparent from young adulthood through old age. Further become under challenging conditions, showing pronounced response deprivation pattern disturbances association major depressive disorder compared Sexual differentiation may be instigated organizational activational effects steroids. also prevalence diagnosed disorders, being likely insomnia obstructive apnea. Sex, therefore, an important factor determining behavior, architecture, presentation.