Fractal cycles of sleep, a new aperiodic activity-based definition of sleep cycles

Sleep cycles are defined as episodes of non-rapid eye movement (non-REM) sleep followed by an episode of REM sleep. Fractal or aperiodic neural activity is a well-established marker of arousal and sleep stages measured using electroencephalography. We introduce a new concept of ‘fractal cycles’ of s...

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Published in:eLife
Main Authors: Yevgenia Rosenblum, Mahdad Jafarzadeh Esfahani, Nico Adelhöfer, Paul Zerr, Melanie Furrer, Reto Huber, Famke F Roest, Axel Steiger, Marcel Zeising, Csenge G Horváth, Bence Schneider, Róbert Bódizs, Martin Dresler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2025-01-01
Subjects:
sleep cycles
aperiodic activity
non-REM-REM sleep cycle
sleep
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antidepressants and sleep
Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/96784

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