Abstract
The “Infant sleep profile” represents a normalized graphic portrayal of an individual
subject's sleep period By visually coding the multiple physiologic measures recorded
polygraphically during sleep, each 30 sees, and processing the codes through several
computer sub-routines, an enormous amount of data is reduced and analyzed. Four distinct,
yet interdependent dimensions of sleep are defined: sleep/wake proportions, organization/disorganization
of sleep states, periodicities of sleep/wake states and events; and, transition sequences
of sleep/wake states. These disparate dimensions are compared with each other and
between infants in order to maximize the information available from infant sleep states.
Hopefully, the Infant Sleep Profile represents a prototype of a clinically relevant,
neurodiagnostic indicator of central nervous system integrity in the newborn infant.
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