An objective description of sleep: tracking continuous oscillation dynamics in the sleep EEG

Introduction: Sleep is a dynamic, continuous process in every physiological and behavioral system studied thus far. The ability to accurately describe these dynamics is therefore essential to understanding the way in which healthy and pathological brain activity evolves during sleep. Current clinical staging, however, discretizes the continuum of sleep into 30-second epochs through subjectively visual inspection. By representing sleep as a coarsely discretized progression of stages, vital information on the neurophysiological dynamics is lost, and we are unable to properly account for activity that does not fit into a single stage definition.

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