Historically, brief awakenings from sleep (cortical arousals) have been assumed to be vitally
important in restoring airflow and blood-gas disturbances at the end of obstructive sleep …

CAP (cyclic alternating pattern) is the EEG marker of unstable sleep, a concept which is
poorly appreciated among the metrics of sleep physiology. Besides, duration, depth and …

Arousal systems play a topical neurophysiologic role in protecting and tailoring sleep
duration and depth. When they appear in NREM sleep, arousal responses are not limited to …

The reliability and validity of EEG arousals and other types of arousal are reviewed. Brief
arousals during sleep had been observed for many years, but the evolution of sleep …

Functional magnetic resonance imaging was used to map cerebral activation in 16 patients
with obstructive sleep-disordered breathing (OSDB) and 16 healthy subjects, during the …

The visual sleep stages scoring by human experts is the current gold standard for sleep
analysis. However, this method is tedious, time-consuming, prone to human errors, and …

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a common disorder characterized by repetitive collapse of
the pharyngeal airway during sleep. Control of pharyngeal patency is a complex process …

Sleep medicine is an ambitious cross-disciplinary challenge, requiring the mutual
integration between complementary specialists in order to build a solid framework. Although …

Obstructive sleep apnea is linked to cardiovascular disease, metabolic disorders and
dementia. The precise nature of the association between respiratory events in obstructive …

Normal sleep has a profound effect on the cardiovascular system, reducing cardiovascular
activity throughout non-rapid eye movement sleep; changes that are modified and …