title: The natural history of the sleep and respiratory engineering track at EMBC 1988 to 2010.
abstract: Sleep science and respiratory engineering as medical subspecialties and research areas grew up side-by-side with biomedical engineering. The formation of EMBS in the 1950's and the discovery of REM sleep in the 1950's led to parallel development and interaction of sleep and biomedical engineering in diagnostics and therapeutics.
authors.affiliation: Universidad Nacional Autononoma de Mexico, DF 04510, Mexico. rleder@ieee.org
authors.forename: Ron S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Leder
authors.forename: Gaston
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Schlotthauer
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Penzel
authors.forename: Raimon
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jane
mesh_terms: D001698:Biomedical Engineering / Q000639:trends*; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000639:trends; D017286:Polysomnography / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D015656:Respiratory Mechanics / Q000502:physiology*; D012890:Sleep / Q000502:physiology*