Sleep deprivation is associated with considerable social, financial, and health-related costs,
in large measure because it produces impaired cognitive performance due to increasing …

Deficits in daytime performance due to sleep loss are experienced universally and
associated with a significant social, financial, and human cost. Microsleeps, sleep attacks …

Context Sleep-disordered breathing (characterized by recurrent arousals from sleep and
intermittent hypoxemia) is common among older adults. Cross-sectional studies have linked …

Vigilance is a term with varied definitions but the most common usage is sustained attention
or tonic alertness. This usage of vigilance implies both the degree of arousal on the sleep …

Recent experimental studies involving total sleep loss, sleep reduction and clinically related
sleep fragmentation report impaired performance on tasks of frontal lobe or executive …

RESEARCHERS SET OUT TO STUDY SLEEP FRAGMENTATION IN AN EFFORT TO
INCREASE THE UNDERSTANDING OF BASIC MECHANISMS GOVERNING SLEEP …

Sleep continuity and efficacy are essential for optimal cognitive functions. How sleep
fragmentation (SF) impairs cognitive functioning, and especially cognitive fatigue (CF) …

The reliability and validity of EEG arousals and other types of arousal are reviewed. Brief
arousals during sleep had been observed for many years, but the evolution of sleep …

Averaged event-related potentials (ERPs) represent sensory and cognitive processing of
stimuli during wakefulness independent of behavioral responses, and reflect the underlying …

The adult hippocampal dentate gyrus (DG) is a site of continuing neurogenesis. This
process is influenced by a variety of physiological and experiential stimuli including total …