Defining muscle activities for assessment of rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder: From a qualitative to a quantitative diagnostic level

Sleep Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 729-733

  Frauscher, Birgit ^a   Ehrmann, Laura ^a   Högl, Birgit ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Any EMG activity; Cutoff; Normative EMG values; Parasomnia; Polysomnography; Quantification

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MUSCLE ATONIA; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NIGHT; PARASOMNIA; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; REFERENCE VALUE; REM SLEEP; REM SLEEP WITHOUT ATONIA; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SLEEP DISORDER;

ANY EMG ACTIVITY; CUTOFF; NORMATIVE EMG VALUES; PARASOMNIA; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; QUANTIFICATION;

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; REM SLEEP BEHAVIOR DISORDER; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84881549390     PISSN: 13899457     EISSN: 18785506     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2012.09.028     Document Type: Article

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