Regional Disruption of Slow-Wave Sleep Homeostasis in Children with Sleep-Disordered Breathing.
Researchers examined brain activity during sleep in 62 children with varying sleep-disordered breathing severity, finding that increased hypopnea burden was linked to disrupted regional patterns of slow-wave activity despite globally preserved deep sleep. This regional disruption was not detected by conventional sleep measures.
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