What Can Make the Difference Between Chronotypes in Sleep Duration? Testing the Similarity of Their Homeostatic Processes.

ABSTRACT: The two-process conceptualization of sleep-wake regulation suggests that the biological underpinnings of the differences between morning and evening types in sleep timing and duration might be related to either the circadian process or the homeostatic process or both. The purpose of this report was to test whether morning and evening types might have similar homeostatic processes to achieve such ultimate goal of homeostatic sleep regulation as taking an adequate amount of sleep on free days. Weekend and weekday rise- and bedtimes reported for 50 paired samples of morning and evening types were averaged and simulated with a model of sleep-wake regulation. In morning and evening types of the same age, the homeostatic components of the sleep-wake regulation were found to be identical. Therefo

SUBMITTER: Putilov AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8920995 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature