title: EEG complexity during sleep: on the effect of micro and macro sleep structure.
abstract: This work investigates the relation between EEG complexity measures, in particular Fractal Dimension and Sample Entropy, and sleep structure, in terms of both macrostructure, i.e. sleep stages, and microstructure, i.e. phase A activation of CAP sleep. Activation phases are compared with the non-activation periods of non-REM sleep. The study suggests that complexity features can serve as consistent descriptors of sleep dynamics and can potentially assist in the classification of sleep stages.
authors.affiliation: BME Department, Polytecnico di Milano, Italy. ioannach@auth.gr
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Chouvarda
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Rosso
authors.forename: M O
authors.initials: MO
authors.lastname: Mendez
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Bianchi
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Parrino
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Grassi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Terzano
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cerutti
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Maglaveras
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004569:Electroencephalography / Q000379:methods*; D019277:Entropy; D005260:Female; D017709:Fractals; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012894:Sleep Stages / Q000502:physiology*