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Sleep medicine

the disturbed, lighter sleep people show on their first night in a sleep laboratory, which is why that night is often discarded.

In sleep medicine, first-night effect refers to the disturbed, lighter sleep people show on their first night in a sleep laboratory, which is why that night is often discarded. This meaning comes from Agnew (1966) in Psychophysiology.[1]

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Agnew, H. W., Webb, W. B., & Williams, R. L. (1966). The First Night Effect: An EEG Study of Sleep. Psychophysiology, 2(3), 263-266. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8986.1966.tb02650.x

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