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Polygraphic Recording Procedure for Measuring Sleep in Mice
Published on: January 25, 2016
Abstract:
The study of human vital functions during sleep could have advantage over studies during wakefulness because sleep potentially is more predictable condition. Besides the factors accompanying sleep (minimization of external stimulation and social interactions, low mental activity, antigravity posture) also increase the quality of data acquisition comparing with wake states. Properly organized clinical investigation in the framework of sleep medicine concept could reveal these advantages and increase the interest to the sleep studies from the community and authorities. This could also promote the investigations in the field of fundamental somnology.
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