Transcription of Chapter 2 – Normal Human Sleep : An Overview
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Carskadon, , & Dement, (2011). Monitoring and staging Human Sleep . In Kryger, T. Roth, & Dement (Eds.), Principles and practice of Sleep medicine, 5th edition, (pp 16-26). St. Louis: Elsevier Saunders. Chapter 2 Normal Human Sleep : An Overview Mary A. Carskadon, William C. Dement Abstract Normal Human Sleep comprises two states rapid eye movement (REM) and non REM (NREM) Sleep that alternate cyclically across a Sleep episode. State characteristics are well defined: NREM Sleep includes a variably synchronous cortical electroencephalogram (EEG; including Sleep spindles, K-complexes, and slow waves) associated with low muscle tonus and minimal psychological activity; the REM Sleep EEG is desynchronized, muscles are atonic, and dreaming is typical.
recording placements. Hence, calling the auricular placements M1 and M2 (rather than A1 and A2) is unnecessary and places the sleep EEG recording terminology outside the pale for EEG recording terminology in other disciplines. Although these are somewhat trivial changes, changes in nomenclature
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