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Polyphasic sleep

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Sleep Disordered Breathing During Live High-Train Low in Normobaric Versus Hypobaric Hypoxia

Jean-Marc Vesin, Grégoire Millet, Sibylle Fallet, Mattia Bertschi

The present study aimed to compare sleep disordered breathing during live high-train low (LHTL) altitude camp using normobaric hypoxia (NH) and hypobaric hypoxia (HH). Sixteen highly trained triathletes completed two 18-day LHTL camps in a crossover design ...

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc2016

Patient MoCap: Human Pose Estimation under Blanket Occlusion for Hospital Monitoring Applications

Alexandru Eugen Ichim

Motion analysis is typically used for a range of diagnostic procedures in the hospital. While automatic pose estimation from RGB-D input has entered the hospital in the domain of rehabilitation medicine and gait analysis, no such method is available for be ...

2016

Regulation Of Neuron-Astrocyte Metabolic Coupling Across The Sleep-Wake Cycle

Pierre Magistretti

Over the last thirty years, a growing number of studies showed that astrocytes play a pivotal role in the energy support to synapses. More precisely, astrocytes adjust energy production to neuronal energy needs through different mechanisms grouped under th ...

Elsevier2016

Sustained Sleep Fragmentation Induces Sleep Homeostasis in Mice

Pierre Magistretti, Maxime Olivier Baud

Study Objectives: Sleep fragmentation (SF) is an integral feature of sleep apnea and other prevalent sleep disorders. Although the effect of repetitive arousals on cognitive performance is well documented, the effects of long-term SF on electroencephalogra ...

American Academy of Sleep Medicine2015

Glycogen metabolism and the homeostatic regulation of sleep

Pierre Magistretti, Igor Allaman, Sophie Burlet Godinot

In 1995 Benington and Heller formulated an energy hypothesis of sleep centered on a key role of glycogen. It was postulated that a major function of sleep is to replenish glycogen stores in the brain that have been depleted during wakefulness which is asso ...

Springer Verlag2015

Ultra-Low Power Design of Wearable Cardiac Monitoring Systems

David Atienza Alonso, Giovanni Ansaloni, Srinivasan Murali, Francisco Javier Rincon Vallejos, Ruben Braojos Lopez, Hossein Mamaghanian, Alair Dias Junior

This paper presents the system-level architecture of novel ultra-low power wireless body sensor nodes (WBSNs) for real-time cardiac monitoring and analysis, and discusses the main design challenges of this new generation of medical devices. In particular, ...

IEEE/ACM Press2014