SCORING SLEEP: THE RULES FOR LOOKING INSIDE

Floriana Boghez, Ioana Mandruta
2015 Romanian Journal of Neurology  
Polysomnography is the most comprehensive sleep study, a multi-parametric recording test (electroencephalography, electrooculogram, chin and limbs electromyogram, respiratory and cardiac functions and permanent videorecording), used as an important diagnostic tool for the sleep disorders. Sleep architecture or the sleep macrostructure is a term used to describe the divisions of sleep into specific sleep stages using electro encephalographic (EEG), electrooculographic (EOG) and electromyographic
more » ... (EMG) criteria: NREM (non-rapid eye movements) stages – N1, N2 and N3, and REM (rapid eye movements) stage.
doi:10.37897/rjn.2015.3.2 doaj:eec2f13cafa1408a8649a6df25ea93e9 fatcat:363ryhhkv5h23gckmxphgpkqxa