New Wearable Headbands for Sleep Assessment

The standard approach to quantifying sleep physiology, polysomnography, requires an overnight stay in the laboratory, is poorly tolerated by many people (especially the elderly or those with medical co-morbidities) and is both labour intensive and costly. In response to this limitation, wearable devices have gained support as tools for self-administered measurement of some aspects of sleep physiology in individuals’ homes. A new generation of wearables devices has become available that are simple to use and cost effective. The wearable consumer EEG headbands DREEM and MUSE provide useful information related to sleep, but data comparing these to polysomnography are needed. The purpose of this study is to compare the DREEM 2 headband and MUSE-S headband against standard polysomnography in older adults. In-lab validation will take place at 8 Canadian academic sleep clinics or sleep research labs, with participants undergoing diagnostic polysomnography per usual care or in the context of existing research projects. In addition to the standard polysomnographic apparatus, they will wear one of DREEM 2 Headband or MUSE Headband. We will quantify several sleep parameters from the headband and determine concordance with polysomnography.

Faculty Supervisor:

Julie Carrier

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Partner:

Universidad de Granada

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Technology

University:

Université de Montréal

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