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Sleep Architecture

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Sleep; Sleep stages; Sleep structure

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Sleep architecture refers to the structure of sleep cycles throughout the night and the five stages of sleep including four stages of non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep and the fifth stage, rapid eye movement (REM) sleep.

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Sleep architecture allows for the quantification of sleep characteristics in order to promote accurate diagnosis of sleep disturbance or related medical or psychological diagnoses. Some relevant measures of sleep architecture include the following:

  • Sleep onset latency – the time between initiating sleep behavior (lights out) to onset of first sleep stage

  • REM latency – the time between sleep onset and occurrence of first REM period

  • Total sleep time – total time (in minutes) sleeping from lights out to lights on

  • Sleep efficiency – ratio of time asleep compared to time recording (lights out to lights on)

Measurement of sleep architecture: Sleep architecture is mapped out by the cyclic series of...

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Pulmonary Division, Sleep Disorders Clinic, Children’s Hospital, Birmingham, AL, USA

    Kim Guion

  2. Department of Pediatrics, Pulmonary Division, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1600 7th Avenue South, Birmingham, AL, 35233, USA

    Kristin T. Avis

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Correspondence to Kim Guion .

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  1. Neurology, Learning and Behavior Center, 230 South 500 East, Suite 100, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84102, USA

    Sam Goldstein Ph.D.

  2. Department of Psychology MS 2C6, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, 22030, USA

    Jack A. Naglieri Ph.D. (Professor of Psychology) (Professor of Psychology)

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Guion, K., Avis, K.T. (2011). Sleep Architecture. In: Goldstein, S., Naglieri, J.A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Child Behavior and Development. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-79061-9_2664

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