A method of determining a sleep phenotype of a subject includes defining a stimulus profile, defining a response profile, administering the stimulus profile to the subject, collecting response data of the subject in accordance with the response profile; comparing the response data to a set of reference data, and determining sleep phenotype based on the comparison of the response data to the reference data. The method is characterized by determining sleep phenotype based on measuring responses to administered stimuli rather than observing typical physiological data observed during periods of sleep.

An apparatus and method for detecting undiagnosed sleep disordered breathing uses daytime sleepiness and nighttime Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) severity. This involves detecting people with excessive daytime sleepiness (and high likelihood of falling asleep during the day) caused by OSA through objective and subjective daytime and nighttime monitoring. Screening is provided for those who are most likely to be suffering a daytime impact of their sleep apnea and thus most likely to respond positively to a potential diagnosis, and notifying these people is also provided.

A system includes facilitating therapy with couples working together for perceiving shared positive benefits by treating sleep disordered breathing issues. Spousal influence can greatly influence and motivate the patient in continuing the therapy. Moreover, through monitoring bed partners' sleep using wearable data, causal information about whose sleep is affecting whom can be inferred. Users can be prompted to seek diagnosis and treatment for sleep disordered breathing conditions and can be used to help coach around therapy adherence.

A method is provided of generating behavior recommendations for a user, and communicating these to a user by means of a linguistic message, and wherein the recommended behavior or properties of the linguistic message are configured based on a measure of circadian inconsistency for the user. The measure of circadian inconsistency is derived by comparing an expected circadian curve of the user (e.g. an average curve derived from historical data for the user) with an empirical circadian curve for a given day. A deviation between the two provides an indication of the circadian inconsistency for the given day, and this is used to inform content, timing, wording, or other properties of the behavior recommendations.

The inventive concept relates to a stimulus providing device that provides training stimuli for improving pain of a pain patient, a perception training method, and a computer program. The stimulus providing device for providing a training stimulus for improving pain includes one or more mounting units mounted on body portions of a user, and one or more stimulus providing units disposed in the mounting units and which provides stimuli to the body portions, the stimulus providing units are controlled by a control unit included in the stimulus providing device or a control unit physically separated from the stimulus providing device to interwork with the stimulus providing device and included in a terminal of the user, and the control unit controls at least one of a location, a range, and an intensity of the stimuli.

Systems, devices, and techniques for adjusting electrical stimulation based on a posture state of a patient are described. For example, processing circuitry is configured to control delivery of a first informed stimulation pulse defined by at least a first value of an informed stimulation parameter, control delivery of a control stimulation pulse to a patient, the control stimulation pulse defined by at least a first value of a control stimulation parameter, determine a characteristic value of the ECAP signal elicited from the control stimulation pulse, receive, from a sensor, a posture state signal representing a posture state of the patient, and adjust, based on the characteristic value of the ECAP signal and the posture state signal, the first value of the informed stimulation parameter to a second value of the informed stimulation parameter.

Systems, devices, and techniques for adjusting electrical stimulation based on a posture state of a patient are described. For example, a system may include sensing circuitry configured to sense an ECAP signal and processing circuitry configured to control delivery of the electrical stimulation to a patient according to a first value of a stimulation parameter and determine a characteristic value of the ECAP signal. The processing circuitry may also be configured to receive, from a sensor, a posture state signal representing a posture state of the patient, determine, based on the posture state signal, a gain value for the stimulation parameter, adjust, based on the characteristic value of the ECAP signal and the gain value, the first value of the stimulation parameter to a second value of the stimulation parameter, and control delivery of the electrical stimulation according to the second value of the stimulation parameter.

A user interface system and an operation method therefor are disclosed. The user interface system includes an electroencephalogram (EEG) detection device that detects event-related potential information by measuring an EEG of a user and includes a user input recognition device that recognizes and corrects an input recognition error by analyzing the event-related potential information when the user's input is recognized.

A system for estimating physical parameter(s) of a medium having electrolyte(s), including at least one working electrode; one counter electrode; a current generator delivering to the electrodes electric current pulses; a computer-readable memory including a predefined analytic model of an electric potential, between the working and counter electrodes, as a function of time, receiving as inputs the current and current pulse duration and including the physical parameter to be estimated; an acquisition unit including a signal amplifier for acquiring and amplifying an electric potential recorded by the electrodes; a processor including a stimulation module controlling the current generator to deliver a biphasic charge-balanced current during a stimulation duration; an acquisition module acquiring an electric potential variation during the stimulation duration; and a calculation module receiving the acquired electric potential variation, fitting the acquired electric potential variation using the predefined analytic model, and outputting the estimated physical parameter.

A system for estimating physical parameter(s) of a medium having electrolyte(s), including at least one working electrode; one counter electrode; a current generator delivering to the electrodes electric current pulses; a computer-readable memory including a predefined analytic model of an electric potential, between the working and counter electrodes, as a function of time, receiving as inputs the current and current pulse duration and including the physical parameter to be estimated; an acquisition unit including a signal amplifier for acquiring and amplifying an electric potential recorded by the electrodes; a processor including a stimulation module controlling the current generator to deliver a biphasic charge-balanced current during a stimulation duration; an acquisition module acquiring an electric potential variation during the stimulation duration; and a calculation module receiving the acquired electric potential variation, fitting the acquired electric potential variation using the predefined analytic model, and outputting the estimated physical parameter.