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  • Title: Diurnal fluctuation of sleep propensity across the menstrual cycle.
    Author: Shibui K, Uchiyama M, Okawa M, Kudo Y, Kim K, Kamei Y, Hayakawa T, Akamatsu T, Ohta K, Ishibashi K.
    Journal: Psychiatry Clin Neurosci; 1999 Apr; 53(2):207-9. PubMed ID: 10459690.
    Abstract:
    Most women experience sleep changes across the menstrual cycle. We applied the ultra-short sleep-wake schedule to healthy females to compare their 24-h sleep propensity rhythms in the follicular and luteal phases. The daytime (09.00-16.30 h) subjective sleepiness and the number of slow wave sleep-containing nap trials increased in the luteal phase compared to the follicular phase, but the mean sleep propensity did not change. During the periods of 17.00-00.30 h and 01.00-08.30 h there were no differences between the two phases. These results suggest that increased daytime sleepiness in the luteal phase may be related to brain mechanisms controlling slow wave sleep.
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