Then, they noticed something: by focussing on periods of inactivity during the night, a much clearer cyclical pattern began to emerge. It was hard to discern the cyclical sleep patterns normally seen with other, more complicated devices in the lab. But the patterns of activity during sleep collected using the devices appeared rather messy. In the new study, Roenneberg and colleagues, including Eva Winnebeck, looked to actimeter data collected over more than 20,000 days from 574 subjects, aged 8 to 92 years. The next step was to find a way to collect objective measurements of sleep characteristics on similarly large numbers of people. Roenneberg’s team had been collecting information on sleep duration and quality via questionnaire. The findings are the latest in a larger, ongoing human sleep project, designed to learn more about sleep and its essential role in our lives by collecting sleep data on thousands of people in the real world. The researchers used the actimeters to assess rest/activity cycles not just over the course of the waking day, but also during sleep itself. The gadgets, called actimeters, record data on wrist movement from which one can obtain activity patterns for up to three months. They are akin to commercially available self-trackers used by consumers. The key is a simple, wrist-worn research gadget that can be purchased for as little as $150. We are going to see things nobody has seen before.” You can’t do this over six weeks or six months. “You can’t easily give somebody an EEG to take home and have next to the bed. “There has been practically no possibility of getting detailed sleep structures in a normal life setting over a long period of time,” said Till Roenneberg of LMU Munich in Germany. The details were published in Current Biology.Īccording to the researchers, the findings represent a major breakthrough in sleep research because, for the first time, it will now be possible to objectively capture the real-life sleep habits and sleep quality of large numbers of people.
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