Interpreting Sleep Study EEG / Looking for reading material

Bob_123 · Post by **Bob_123** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 12:00 pm

Can anyone point me to an in-depth discussion allowing me to get a better understanding of the EEG part of the sleep study. None of the books I've read go into much depth. I'd especially like to read about it in the context of Upper Airway Resistance Syndrome (UARS). Those of use with UARS never seem to get much deep sleep as we effectively wake up many times per hour.

Wulfman · Post by **Wulfman** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 12:06 pm

Bob,

Take a look at this link and see if the info you're looking for might be there.
There are many more links within this link.

http://www.psywww.com/resource/selfhelp/sleep.html

Good luck,

Den

wkwchau · Post by **wkwchau** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 1:28 pm

Bob_123 wrote:Can anyone point me to an in-depth discussion allowing me to get a better understanding of the EEG part of the sleep study. None of the books I've read go into much depth. I'd especially like to read about it in the context of Upper Airway Resistance Syndrome (UARS). Those of use with UARS never seem to get much deep sleep as we effectively wake up many times per hour.

I believe the EEG of the sleep study is only used to determine the sleeping stages at any given time during the study. One research study may be of your interesting is: http://www.chestjournal.org/cgi/content/full/115/4/1127. Click the right panel of "Full text (PDF)" to obtain the article. If you can search more related articles from PubMed:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed.