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Neural aperiodic activity as a novel test of vigilance: a proof-of concept, retrospective study of patients undergoing MWT

2025-12-18 respiratory medicine Title + abstract only
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BackgroundThe maintenance of wakefulness test (MWT) measures the ability of an individual to maintain wakefulness in soporific conditions and despite limitations remains the mainstay of vigilance testing. Wake and sleep states are traditionally characterised by oscillatory activity on electroencephalogram (EEG) but there is a less utilised non-oscillatory component of background neural aperiodic activity which can be derived from EEG raw data and represented as an exponent or a gradient (1/f slo...

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