Heart rate variability: a tool to explore the sleeping brain?
Sleep is divided into two main sleep stages: 1) non-rapid eye movement sleep (non-REMS), characterized among others by reduced global brain activity; and 2) rapid eye movement sleep (REMS), characterized by global brain activity similar to that of wakefulness. Results of heart rate variability (HRV)...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2014-12-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Neuroscience |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnins.2014.00402/full |