| Literature DB >> 11030994 |
A Bunde1, S Havlin, J W Kantelhardt, T Penzel, J H Peter, K Voigt.
Abstract
Healthy sleep consists of several stages: deep sleep, light sleep, and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. Here we show that these sleep stages can be characterized and distinguished by correlations of heart rates separated by n beats. Using the detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) up to fourth order we find that long-range correlations reminiscent to the wake phase are present only in the REM phase. In the non-REM phases, the heart rates are uncorrelated above the typical breathing cycle time, pointing to a random regulation of the heartbeat during non-REM sleep.Mesh:
Year: 2000 PMID: 11030994 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.3736
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Phys Rev Lett ISSN: 0031-9007 Impact factor: 9.161