The goal of this chapter is to summarize the procedures for monitoring and evaluating sleep
in the laboratory setting. This material will not substitute for the standard manual; rather, one …

First, it was clear that some criteria development was called for. Studies reporting sleep
latency from nine laboratories were found in the literature. Sleep onset was left essentially …

One of the major inconveniences encountered in sleep studies is the time consuming labor
involved in equating visual analysis of physiological recordings (EEG, EMG, EOG,...) to an …

In 1967, the Association for the Psychophysiological Study of Sleep (APSS) chartered a
committee of sleep researchers to establish a standard system for visually scoring stages of …

It has been known since the early days of electroencephalography that characteristic EEG
changes occur in sleep. During the past decade, the classification of Dement and Kleitman …

This review article summarizes the basic knowledge from the field of sleep research. The
emphasis is on the exploration of the rules of polysomnographic recording and scoring …

Automatic classification of EEGs from sleeping subjects has both practical and theoretical
importance. The practical importance of the techniques is to relieve the tedium of manual …

Sleep analysis is based on polysomnography. Modern polysomnographic systems are
computer based. Visual and automatic analysis of sleep and respiration is supported by …

With the vast research interest in sleep and dreams that has developed in the past 15 years,
there is increasing evidence of noncomparibility of scoring of nocturnal …

Sleep spindles are specific, transient EEG phenomena essentially present in stage 2, and
may be defined as a “group of rhythmic waves characterized by progressively increasing …