Publications on Sleep and Circadian Rhythms

Book Chapters:

Parmeggiani PL, Bartsch RP, and Ivanov PCh.

Physiologic Regulation in Sleep.

In "Atlas of Clinical Sleep Medicine", edited by Kryger M. Elsevier Inc. Publisher; 2013; p.36-40.

Ivanov PCh, Lo C-C.

Stochastic Approaches to Modeling of Physiological Rhythms.

In "Modelling Biomedical Signals", edited by Nardulli G, Stramaglia S. Singapore: World Scienti.c; 2002; pp. 28-50.

Peer-Reviewed Articles and Conference Proceedings:

Lombardi, F., Gómez-Extremera, M., Bernaola-Galván, P., Vetrivelan, R., Saper, C.B., Scammell, T.E. and Ivanov, P.C.

Critical dynamics and coupling in bursts of cortical rhythms indicate non-homeostatic mechanism for sleep-stage transitions and dual role of VLPO neurons in both sleep and wake. [PDF]

Journal of Neuroscience, 2020, 40(1), pp.171-190.


Jilin W. J. L. Wang,Fabrizio Lombardi,Xiyun Zhang ,Christelle Anaclet, Plamen Ch. Ivanov

Non-equilibrium critical dynamics of bursts in θ and δ rhythms as fundamental characteristic of sleep and wake micro-architecture. [PDF] (Supporting Information [PDF])

PLOS Computational Biology 15(11): e1007268.


dos Santos Lima, G.Z., Lobao-Soares, B., Corso, G., Belchior, H., Lopes, S.R., de Lima Prado, T., Nascimento, G.,

de França, A.C., Fontenele-Araújo, J. and Ivanov, P.C.

Hippocampal and cortical communication around micro-arousals in slow-wave sleep. [PDF]

Scientific Reports, 2019, 9(1), p.5876.


Hila Dvir, Idan Elbaz, Shlomo Havlin, Lior Appelbaum, Plamen Ch. Ivanov, and Ronny P. Bartsch

Neuronal noise as an origin of sleep arousals and its role in sudden infant death syndrome. [PDF]

Science Advances, 2018:Vol. 4, no. 4, eaar6277


Bartsch RP, Liu KKL, Ma QDY, and Ivanov PCh.

Three independent forms of cardio-respiratory coupling: transitions across sleep stages. [ PDF ]

Computing in Cardiology, 2014; 41:781-784


Lo C-C, Bartsch RP, Ivanov PCh.

Asymmetry and basic pathways in sleep-stage transitions. [ PDF ]

Europhysics Letters (EPL) 2013; 102(1): 10008


Bartsch RP, Schumann AY, Kantelhardt JW, Penzel T, Ivanov PCh.

Phase transitions in physiologic coupling. [ PDF ]

Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2012; 109(26): 10181-10186.


Ivanov PCh, Bartsch RP, Bashan A, Kantelhardt JW, Havlin S.

Physiologic networks: topological and functional transitions across sleep stages.

Sleep 2012; 35 Supplement S: A52-A53


Ivanov PCh, Lo C-C, and Bartsch RP.

Scale-invariant pattern in arousals during sleep.

Proceedings of Biosignal: Advanced Technologies in Intensive Care and

Sleep Medicine, Berlin, Germany, 2010; p.17-20.


Bartsch RP, Schumann AY, Kantelhardt JW, Havlin S, and Ivanov PCh.

Sleep stage and age dependence of cardio-respiratory coupling in healthy subjects.

Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies (APSS) 2010. Sleep 2010; 33 Supplement S: A16-A16.


Schumann AY, Bartsch RP, Penzel T, Ivanov PCh, Kantelhardt JW.

Aging effects on cardiac and respiratory dynamics in healthy subjects across sleep stages. [ PDF ]

Sleep 2010; 33(7):943-955.


Bartsch RP, Schumann AY, Kantelhardt JW, Havlin S, Ivanov PCh.

Sleep stage and age dependence of cardio-respiratory coupling in healthy subjects.

Sleep 2010; 33:A16-A16 0036 Suppl. S


Penzel T, Schumann AY, Bartsch RP, Ivanov PCh, Kantelhardt JW.

Aging effects in cardio respiratory variability in different sleep stages.

Sleep 2010; 33:A109-A109 0314 Suppl. S


Schmitt DT, Stein PK, Ivanov PCh.

Stratification pattern of static and scale-invariant dynamics measures of heartbeat fluctuations across sleep stages in young and elderly. [ PDF ]

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 2009; 56(5):1564-1573.


Ivanov PCh, Hu K, Hilton MF, Shea SA, Stanley HE.

Endogenous circadian rhythm in human motor activity uncoupled from circadian influences on cardiac dynamics. [ PDF ]

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 2007; 104(52):20702-20707.


Ivanov PCh.

Scale-invariant aspects of cardiac dynamics - Observing sleep stages and circadian phases. [ PDF ]

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine 2007; 26(6):33-37.


Ivanov PCh, Lo C-C.

Quantification of sleep fragmentation through the analysis of sleep-stage transitions.

Sleep 2007; 30:A212-A212 629 Suppl. S.


Schmitt DT, Ivanov PCh.

Scaling and nonlinear properties of heartbeat fluctuations across sleep stages.

Sleep 2007; 30:A117-A117 342 Suppl. S.


Hu K, Scheer FAJL, Ivanov PCh, Buijs RM, Shea SA.

The suprachiasmatic nucleus functions beyond circadian rhythm generation. [ PDF ]

Neuroscience 2007; 149(3):508-517.


Hu K, Hilton MF, Ayers RT, Ivanov PCh, Shea SA.

An endogenous circadian rhythm in an index of cardiac vulnerability confirmed with a constant routine protocol.

Sleep 2006;29:A68-A68 202 Suppl. S.


Ivanov PCh.

Scale-invariant aspects of cardiac dynamics across sleep stages and circadian phases.

2006 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society 2006; 1-15: 6455-6458


Penzel T, Lo C-C, Ivanov PCh, Kesper K, Becker HF, Vogelmeier C.

Analysis of sleep fragmentation and sleep structure in patients with sleep apnea and normal volunteers.

2005 27TH Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2005; 1-7:2591-2594


Hu K, Ivanov PCh, Hilton MF, Chen Z, Ayers RT, Stanley HE, Shea SA.

Endogenous circadian rhythm in an index of cardiac vulnerability independent of changes in behavior. [ PDF ] (Ivanov shared 1st authorship with Hu)

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 2004; 101(52):18223-18227.


Lo C-C, Chou T, Penzel T, Scammell T, Strecker RE, Stanley HE, and Ivanov PCh.

Common scale-invariant patterns of sleep-wake transitions across mammalian species. [ PDF ]

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 2004;101(52):17545-17548.


Kantelhardt JW, Havlin S, Ivanov PCh.

Modeling transient correlations in heartbeat dynamics during sleep. [ PDF ]

Europhysics Letters 2003;62(2):147-153.


Lo C-C, Amaral LAN, Havlin S, Ivanov PCh, Penzel T Peter J-H, Stanley HE.

Dynamics of sleep-wake transitions during sleep. [ PDF ]

Europhysics Letters 2002;57(5):625-631.


Ivanov PCh, Bunde A, Amaral LAN, Havlin S, Fritsch-Yelle J, R.M. Baevsky, Stanley HE, Goldberger AL.

Sleep-wake differences in scaling behavior of the human heartbeat: analysis of terrestrial and long-term space flight data. [ PDF ]

Europhysics Letters 1999;48:594-600.