Scoring atonia during normal and pathological rapid eye movement sleep: Visual and automatic quantification methods

Sleep and Biological Rhythms

Volumn 11, Issue SUPPL.1, 2013, Pages 40-51

  Fulda, Stephany ^a,c   Plazzi, Giuseppe ^b   Ferri, Raffaele ^a  

^a OASI RESEARCH INSTITUTE IRCCS   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c REGIONAL HOSPITAL OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Atonia index; Quantification; REM sleep atonia; REM sleep behavior disorder

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE ATONIA; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FUNCTION; NARCOLEPSY; NONREM SLEEP; OPTOMETRY; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; REM SLEEP; REM SLEEP ATONIA INDEX; SCORING SYSTEM; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; STREAM SCORE; VISION; MUSCLE TONE; NOISE REDUCTION; PARASOMNIA; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84878430063     PISSN: 14469235     EISSN: 14798425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-8425.2012.00552.x     Document Type: Article

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