The brain harbors a unique ability to, figuratively speaking, shift its gears. During
wakefulness, the brain is geared fully toward processing information and behaving, while …

Sleep spindles are a distinctive EEG phasic feature of NREM sleep and are prevalent during
stage 2 as compared to slow wave sleep. While the neurophysiological mechanisms of …

1.0 BACKGROUND In the more than a third of a century since the Rechtschaffen and Kales
manual on sleep stage scoring was published, much has changed in sleep science and …

We present a new approach to classifying the sleep stage that incorporates a
computationally inexpensive method based on permutations for channel selection and takes …

Sleep spindles are discrete, intermittent patterns of brain activity observed in human
electroencephalographic data. Increasingly, these oscillations are of biological and clinical …

Age is probably the single most crucial factor determining how humans sleep. Age and level
of vigilance significantly influence the electroencephalogram (EEG) and the polysomnogram …

BACKGROUND: BIS (a brand of processed electroencephalogram [EEG] depth-of-
anesthesia monitor) scores have become interwoven into clinical anesthesia care and …

Sleep, specifically non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep, is thought to play a critical role in
the consolidation of recent memories. Two main oscillatory activities observed during …

Over the past decade, converging evidence from diverse studies has demonstrated that
sleep is closely associated with the mental and physical health, quality of life, and safety …

Purpose of Review: Review published studies and critiques which evaluate the impact and
effects of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) Sleep Scoring Manual in the …