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Sleep
Sleep
Sleep plays an essential role in our health and wellbeing. While the precise purpose of sleep remains a broad area of scientific inquiry, it is clear that there are probably multiple roles including balancing metabolic phases of the brain, emotional regulation and processes that support synaptic changes associated with memory and cognition.
Sleep-activity Rhythms
Sleep-activity Rhythms
Circadian rhythms are endogenously generated patterns responsible for controlling cyclical physiological processes, such as thermoregulation, metabolism, and rest-activity patterns. Wearable electronics, such as wrist-based actigraphy devices, offer an attractive methodology for acquiring objective, non-invasive, real-world data about individuals’ rest-activity behaviors Wrist-based actigraphy has enabled both researchers and clinicians to passively collect activity data with less participant burden and high ecological validity. Measures of rest-activity patterns can be calculated from actigraphy data to provide a quantitative snapshot of an individual’s rest-activity behavior.
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