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Modern nondrug methods of human sleep regulation

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Nondrug approaches for the regulation and induction of human sleep available at present have been analyzed; an attempt at classifying them has been made. The main attention is paid to the methods using modern computer technologies for the recording and analysis of various characteristics of the functioning of the human body, primarily, its electroencephalogram (EEG). Normal human sleep EEG correlates and their changes during different stages of the wakefulness-sleep cycle are reviewed and modern opportunities to use these characteristics for artificial regulation and induction of human sleep are analyzed.

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Original Russian Text © A.I. Fedotchev, 2011, published in Fiziologiya Cheloveka, 2011, Vol. 37, No. 1, pp. 126–135.

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Fedotchev, A.I. Modern nondrug methods of human sleep regulation. Hum Physiol 37, 113–120 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0362119710061027

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