Diet and Sleep Patterns in Newborn Infants
- 10 November 1983
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 309 (19), 1147-1149
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198311103091903
Abstract
Sleep behavior is modulated by serotonergic neurons within the brain, and the synthesis and release of serotonin by such neurons is thought to be influenced by the availability of tryptophan, the amino acid precursor of serotonin. We investigated the effects on the sleep patterns of newborn infants of variations in diet designed to affect tryptophan availability.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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