Most sleep studies ordered by doctors attempt only to diagnose sleep apnea and thus don’t report the number of alpha intrusions, which must be done by hand and is labor intensive. There is also no consistent way to document the frequency of alpha waves. But exciting new research done by Dr. Victor Rosenfeld, a sleep physician, may change that. He has developed a specialized computer program to quickly analyze a sleep study by counting the alpha waves (awake) compared to delta (deep sleep) waves, which gives a delta-alpha ratio. He has found that a low delta-alpha score (a disproportionate
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