Sleep studies provide a lot of important information but aren’t very patient-friendly. ... A new sleep study method does away with the traditional mess of wires and electrodes.

That makes it hard for people to wear wet electrodes on the face or head for long periods of time, which is common in sleep studies. Electrodes made of dry, conducting metals have also been ...

An easy-to-use electrode set can assess sleep bruxism severity as well as a conventional polysomnography, a new study from the University of Eastern Finland shows. Sleep bruxism, commonly known as ...

While prior studies have used EEG recordings captured by electrodes on the head to measure memory processing during sleep, in this study electrical activity was recorded from inside the brain.

Researchers from Finland have developed a new electroencephalography (EEG) electrode set capable of assessing sleep bruxism as accurately as more complex and costly methods such as traditional ...

Individuals in industrialised societies seem to sleep for longer than people in non-industrialised ones, but their circadian rhythms are more out of sync ...

However, even with a full set of electrodes, ... Additionally, brief tonic seizures, which can last between 5 and 7 seconds, may occur during sleep. Even in a sleep study, ...