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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Nov 14.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Psychiatry. 2006 May;19(3):282–287. doi: 10.1097/01.yco.0000218599.32969.03

Figure 3. The sleep homeostatic process as a function of age.

Figure 3

Proposed developmental changes in accumulation of sleep pressure as a function of time since waking depicted for different ages. Sleep pressure accumulates more slowly during the day with increasing age.