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The change of sleep pattern is one of the most often altered normal physiological functions in elderly people. Besides normal change of sleep, insomnia and sleep apnea syndrome (SAS) are...
Independent Component Analysis (ICA) is a blind source separation method using unsupervised learning and mutual information theory created in the late eighties and developed in the nineties. It has already...
In 2000, the number of people aged 65 and over increased to 3.37 million, accounting for 7.1% of the total population of South Korea. The elderly population will increase up...
OBJECT: Diurnal variation is included in the diagnostic criteria of the major depressive disorder, melancholic specifier. But there has been controversy over whether diurnal variation is an unique depressive symptoms...
The prevalence of insomnia and the degree of impairment due to insomnia is greater than in the young. The cause for insomnia in the elderly are various factors among the...
BACKGROUND: Sleep disorders are prevalent in the general population and in medical practice. Three diagnostic classifications for sleep disorders have been developed recently: The International classification of Sleep Disorders (ICSD),...
OBJECTIVES: Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSA) is a moderately prevalent disorder. Even through much progress has been made in the diagnosis of this disorder, the cost-effectiveness of nocturnal polysomnography is...
OBJECTIVES: This study examined the effect of mood and personality characteristics on psychophysiological responses measured by a biofeedback system in a normal population.
METHODS: Fifty healthy volunteers without any history of...
OBJECTIVES: The experience of traffic accident is a kind of the psychological stressors to person. The traffic accident-related patients may show the psychophysiologic hyperarousal. So we examined the differences of...
OBJECTIVES: An increased level of psycophsiologic arousal and diminished physiologic flexibility would be observed in patients with panic disorder compared with a normal control group. We investigated the differences of...