In this work, topographic differences in computational sleep depth between healthy controls and obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (OSAS) patients have been examined. Sleep depth estimation was based on continuous monitoring of the mean frequency of the EEG. During the experiments, all-night sleep EEG recordings of carefully age and gender matched sets of 16 healthy controls and 16 OSAS patients...

The main goal of this study was to investigate to what extent polysomnographic (PSG) recordings of nocturnal human sleep can provide information about sleep quality in terms of correlation with a set of daytime measures. These measures were designed with the aim of comprising selected quality of night sleep and consist of subjective sleep quality ratings, neuropsychological tests and physiologi...

Uyku, fiziksel ve zihinsel sağlığımızın günlük olarak yenilenmesi için önemli bir aktivite zamanıdır yaşamımızın üçte birini kaplar. Uyku bozuklukları, psikiyatrik bozuklukları şiddetlendirebilir veya semptomlarına neden olabilir. Bunlardan ilki uyku apnesi Diğer ise huzursuz bacak sendromudur. Depresyon, anksiyete, ağrı bazı problemler de uykusuzluğa apnesi, sinir sistemi probleminden soluk yo...

This paper presents a recurrent neural classifier to automatically classify sleep stages based on energy features of EEG signals by using only one single EEG channel (Fpz-Cz). The energy features are extracted from characteristic waves of EEG signals which can characterize different sleep stages individually. The recurrent neural classifier takes the energy features extracted on 30s epochs from...

The aim of the present study was to estimate slow-wave activity (SWA), a marker of sleep homeostasis, in children with obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) before and after adenotonsillectomy (AT) compared with untreated OSA children (comparison group). 14 children with OSA (mean ± sd age 6.4 ± 2.5 yrs; apnoea-hypopnoea index (AHI) 10.0 ± 10.3 events·h⁻¹) who underwent AT were consecutively recruited...

An automated wireless system (WS) for sleep monitoring was recently developed and validated for assessing nighttime sleep. Here, we aimed to evaluate the validity of the WS to correctly monitor daytime sleep during naps compared to polysomnography (PSG). We found that the WS underestimated wake, sleep onset latency, and wake after sleep onset. Meanwhile, it overestimated total sleep time, sleep...

Neural plasticity transcends a range of spatio-temporal scales and serves as the basis of various brain activities and physiologic functions. At the microscopic level, it enables the emergence of brain waves with complex temporal dynamics. At the macroscopic level, presence and dominance of specific brain waves is associated with important brain functions. The role of neural plasticity at diffe...

The physiological significance of the fractal component of short-term, spontaneous heart rate variability (HRV) in humans remains unclear. The aim of the present study was to gain further information about the respective fractal components by extracting them from HRV, blood pressure variability (BPV), and instantaneous lung volume (ILV) time series via coarse graining spectral analysis in nine ...

To study the effects of nitrogen addition to the breathing mixture on sleep disturbances at pressure, two dives were performed in which helium-nitrogen-oxygen mixture was used up to 450 m sea water (msw). In total, sleep of 12 professional divers was analyzed (i.e., 184 night records). Sleep was disrupted by compression and by stay at 450 msw: we observed an increase in awake periods and in sle...