Abstract
We developed a thermoregulatory model of sleep control based on the hypothesis that non rapid eye movement sleep participates in the homeostatic thermoregulation. This model successfully reproduced several qualitative features of human sleep-wake cycles. Here, in order to provide an experimentally verifiable prediction concerning behavior of human circadian system, the model response to a heat load pulse was simulated. As a result, the strong phase-dependent responses to the heat load pulse was predicted by the model. This is an intriguing result which deserves to be studied experimentally.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1729-1730 |
Number of pages | 2 |
Journal | Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings |
Volume | 4 |
Publication status | Published - 1996 Dec 1 |
Event | Proceedings of the 1996 18th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Part 4 (of 5) - Amsterdam, Neth Duration: 1996 Oct 31 → 1996 Nov 3 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Signal Processing
- Biomedical Engineering
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
- Health Informatics