An examination of sleep spindle metrics in the Sleep Heart Health Study: superiority of automated spindle detection over total sigma power in assessing age-related spindle decline

Sleep spindle activity is commonly estimated by measuring sigma power during stage 2 non-rapid eye movement (NREM2) sleep. However, spindles account for little of the total NREM2 interval and therefore sigma p...

Source: BMC Neurology - October 6, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Kalyan Palepu, Kolia Sadeghi, Dave F. Kleinschmidt, Jacob Donoghue, Seth Chapman, Alexander R. Arslan, M. Brandon Westover, Sydney S. Cash and Jay Pathmanathan Tags: Research Source Type: research