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A Manual of Standardized Terminology, Techniques and Scoring System for Sleep Stages of Human Subjects.
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Sleep DisordersSleep HealthNeuropsychologyUcla Brain InformationSleep StagesElectroencephalographySocial SciencesAd Hoc CommitteeSleep MedicineKinesiologyPsychophysiologyStandardized TerminologySleep PhysiologyCognitive ElectrophysiologyCognitive NeuroscienceSleepCognitive SciencePsychiatryScoring SystemNeuroimagingRehabilitationInsomniaSleep RoutinesSleep DeprivationSleep Disordered BreathingSleep DisorderNeurophysiologySleep ApneaNeuroscienceMedicineSleep QualitySleep Psychology
Sleep research has expanded over the past decade, yet scoring of nocturnal EEG/ECG recordings remains inconsistent across laboratories, prompting a 1967 meeting on scoring criteria. The UCLA Brain Information committee was convened in 1967 to create a universal terminology and scoring system for sleep stages. The committee evaluated recording and scoring techniques and proposed standardized abbreviations, pictorial representations, and ordering of polygraphic tracings. The resulting system has been published under the auspices of the National Institutes of Health.
With the vast research interest in sleep and dreams that has developed in the past 15 years, there is increasing evidence of noncomparibility of scoring of nocturnal electroencephalograph-electroculograph records from different laboratories. In 1967 a special session on scoring criteria was held at the seventh annual meeting of the Association for the Psychophysiological Study of Sleep. Under the auspices of the UCLA Brain Information, an ad hoc committee composed of some of the most active current researchers was formed in 1967 to develop a terminology and scoring system for universal use. It is the results of the labors of this group that is now published under the imprimatur of the National Institutes of Health. The presentation is beautifully clear. Techniques of recording, scoring, and doubtful records are carefully considered. Recommendations for abbreviations, types of pictorial representation, order of polygraphic tracings are suggested.