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Polysomnography in humans and animal models: basic procedures and analysis

  • Pablo Torteroloe, g(Author)
    ,
  • Joaquín Gonzaleze(Author)
    ,
  • Santiago Castro-Zaballae(Author)
    ,
  • Matías Cavellid, e(Author)
    ,
  • Alejandra Mondinoc, e(Author)
    ,
  • Claudia Pascovichb, e(Author)
  • ,
  • bUniversity of Cambridge
    ,
  • cUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    ,
  • dUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
    ,
  • eUniversidad de la República
    ,
  • fUniversity of Aberdeen
Research Output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Chapter Peer-review

Publication Information

Output type

Research Output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Chapter Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 17-32 (16 pages)

Publication milestones

  • Published - 01/01/2021

Publication status

Published - 01/01/2021

Publisher

Elsevier
9780323903349

ISBN (Electronic)

9780323852357

External Publication IDs

  • Scopus: 85139373656

Host publication title

Methodological Approaches for Sleep and Vigilance Research

Abstract

Sleep is one of the great mysteries of life. We spend a third of our life sleeping without awareness of the outside world. Part of this time, during dreams, we have a bizarre cognitive activity disconnected from reality and guided by internal stimuli. In the last 70years, as a result of basic research, there has been a remarkable increase in the knowledge of the physiology of sleep. Some of this knowledge has been transferred to the medical practice, where about 80 different sleep disturbances have been described. In most mammals (including humans) and birds, two sleep states can be readily distinguished: rapid eye movement sleep and nonrapid eye movement sleep. Polysomnography (PSG) is the basic tool used to recognize and characterize these behavioral states, and to explore brain activity during sleep. In the present work, we present a brief review of the main PSG procedures and data analysis in clinical and humans research settings, as well as in animal models.