Finger Twitches are More Frequent in REM Sleep Than in Non-REM Sleep.

Andrew M Reiter Gregory D Roach Charli Sargent Leon C Lack

Published in: Nature and science of sleep (2020)

Finger twitching is more frequent in REM sleep than in NREM sleep and becomes more distinguishable as sleep progresses. Finger twitches appear to be too infrequent to make definitive 30-second epoch determinations of sleep stage. However, an algorithm informed by measures of finger twitch density has the potential to detect periods of REM sleep and provide estimates of total REM sleep time and percentage.

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