 Polysomnography
"Polysomnography" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Simultaneous and continuous monitoring of several parameters during sleep to study normal and abnormal sleep. The study includes monitoring of brain waves, to assess sleep stages, and other physiological variables such as breathing, eye movements, and blood oxygen levels which exhibit a disrupted pattern with sleep disturbances.
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D017286
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E01.370.520.625
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| Concept/Terms |
Polysomnography- Polysomnography
- Polysomnographies
- Monitoring, Sleep
- Sleep Monitoring
- Somnography
- Somnographies
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| 2000 | 0 | 3 | 3 | | 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2002 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2004 | 1 | 5 | 6 | | 2005 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2006 | 1 | 5 | 6 | | 2007 | 2 | 3 | 5 | | 2008 | 0 | 3 | 3 | | 2009 | 0 | 4 | 4 | | 2010 | 0 | 5 | 5 | | 2011 | 1 | 10 | 11 | | 2012 | 0 | 3 | 3 | | 2013 | 2 | 4 | 6 | | 2014 | 0 | 3 | 3 | | 2015 | 0 | 7 | 7 | | 2016 | 0 | 3 | 3 | | 2017 | 2 | 11 | 13 | | 2018 | 2 | 7 | 9 | | 2019 | 3 | 5 | 8 | | 2020 | 1 | 7 | 8 | | 2021 | 0 | 4 | 4 | | 2022 | 0 | 3 | 3 | | 2023 | 1 | 4 | 5 | | 2024 | 4 | 5 | 9 | | 2025 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Polysomnography" by people in Profiles.
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Mutirangura P, Alexy T, Airhart SE, Kay JE, Christophy AC, Emerson D, Raymer D, Shaffer AW, Castleberry AW, Hyden MP, Mudy K, Sun B, Pusalavidyasagar S. Home sleep apnea testing in patients with continuous flow left ventricular assist device: is it feasible? J Clin Sleep Med. 2025 Jun 01; 21(6):999-1005.
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Nenert R, Mueller C, Catiul C, Pilkington J, LeVan P, Sharma A, Szaflarski JP, Amara AW. Brain physiological pulsations are linked to sleep architecture and cognitive performance in older adults. Neuroimage. 2025 May 01; 311:121187.
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Dobbin ML, Bernard A, Pyle L, Friedman N, Cree MG, Hawkins SMM, Simon SL. Comparison of WatchPAT to polysomnography measurement of apnea-hypopnea index and obstructive sleep apnea severity in adolescents with overweight and obesity. J Clin Sleep Med. 2025 Apr 01; 21(4):695-702.
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Heckler G, Worhach J, Wang G, Szilagyi K, Zhang B, Behn CD, Scammell T, Maski K. Characterizing disrupted nighttime sleep and associated functional outcomes in youth with narcolepsy type 1. J Clin Sleep Med. 2025 Feb 01; 21(2):355-363.
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Lackey TG, Allen A, McCabe N, Clary M, Green KK, Fink DS. Are We Missing Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Patients With Non-traumatic Subglottic Stenosis? Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol. 2025 Apr; 134(4):266-273.
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Das R, Gliske SV, Maroni D, Situ-Kcomt M, West LC, Summers MO, Tang S, Vaswani PA, Halpern CH, Thompson JA, Kushida CA, Abosch A. Sleep spindle variation in patients with Parkinson's disease on first nights of sub-optimal deep brain stimulation. Clin Neurophysiol. 2025 Feb; 170:91-97.
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Althoff MD, Kinney GL, Aloia MS, Sempio C, Klawitter J, Bowler RP. The impact of cannabis use proximal to sleep and cannabinoid metabolites on sleep architecture. J Clin Sleep Med. 2024 Oct 01; 20(10):1615-1625.
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Das R, Gliske SV, West LC, Summers MO, Tang S, Hirt L, Maroni D, Halpern CH, Thompson JA, Kushida CA, Abosch A. Sleep macro-architecture in patients with Parkinson's disease does not change during the first night of neurostimulation in a pilot study. J Clin Sleep Med. 2024 Sep 01; 20(9):1489-1496.
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Diala OR, Polat P, Pickett-Nairne K, Friedman NR. Longitudinal Success of Tonsillectomy for Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Children with Down Syndrome. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2024 Dec; 171(6):1918-1924.
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J?uregui EJ, Diala O, Rove KO, Hoefner-Notz R, Tong S, Nguyen T, Friedman NR. Overnight Monitoring Criteria for Children with Obstructive Sleep-Disordered Breathing After Tonsillectomy: Revisited. Laryngoscope. 2024 Dec; 134(12):5223-5230.
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