Multitaper Spectrogram Sleep Stage Patterns (IMAGE)

Massachusetts General Hospital

Multitaper Spectrogram Sleep Stage Patterns

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The sleep EEG multitaper spectrogram reveals patterns of continuous changes in brain oscillation activity during sleep. Characteristic patterns clearly differentiate waking (left) from nonREM (center) and REM sleep (left).

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Michael Prerau, PhD

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