1.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00391655

Titolo

Jnanamuktavali : commemoration volume in honour of Johannes Nobel : on the occasion of his 70th birthday offered by pupils and colleagues / edited by Claus Vogel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Delhi, : International academy of Indian culture, 1959

Descrizione fisica

XII, 276 p., [2] c. di tav. : ritr., ill. ; 29 cm.

Soggetti

FILOLOGIA VEDICA

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910220053803321

Autore

Christian O'Reilly

Titolo

Sleep Spindles: Breaking the Methodological Wall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Frontiers Media SA, 2017

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (228 p.)

Collana

Frontiers Research Topics

Soggetti

Neurosciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

In the last decade, sleep spindles have attracted steadily increasing attention. This interest is motivated by the many intriguing relationships between spindles and various diseases (e.g., schizophrenia, Parkinson, Alzheimer, autism, mental retardation), recovery processes (e.g., post brain stroke), and cognitive faculties (e.g., memory consolidation, intelligence, dream recall, sleep



preservation). Nonetheless, a methodological wall has impeded the study of sleep spindles. Their investigation rests heavily on our ability to reliably and consistently identify spindle patterns from background EEG activity, a task involving many obstacles, including: a fuzzy definition of spindles, low inter-expert agreement on their scoring, lack of consensus on standard techniques for their automated detection, low reproducibility of observed characteristics and correlates, unavailability of large, standardized, high-quality databases, and inconsistencies in the methods used to evaluate the performance of automated detectors. The primary aims of this research topic were to bring together world-class researchers on a project designed to facilitate exchanges on methodological difficulties encountered in assessing sleep spindles and to promote standardized spindle-related resources. In preparing their contributions, authors were encouraged to use existing - or to propose new - publicly available resources for assessing sleep spindles. To allow fair and accurate comparison of reported results, the authors were also encouraged to validate their tools on a common benchmark. A database containing expert spindle scoring (i.e., the Montreal Archive of Sleep Studies) was made publicly available for that purpose.