Microsleep episodes and wakefulness, the daytime job of sleep-wake medicine

David R Schreier¹

• ¹Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Department of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA; The Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Massachusetts General Hospital Brain Arousal State Control Innovation Center (BASCIC), USA; Center for Neurotechnology and Neurorecovery, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Neurology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, and University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.