The MyHeart consortium consists of a broad range of 34 partners from 11 countries. It is a common research effort of industry, research institutes, academic and medical hospitals, covering the whole value chain from from textile research, via fashion and electronics design, towards medical and home-based applications.

Publications in 2008,  2007,  2006,  2005 or  2004

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2008

 
Sleep and quality of life in heart failure and stroke, Published in Sleep and quality of life in clinical illness 355-366, 2008  
High impact of depression in congestive heart failure, Published in Early diagnosis and therapy options in Int J Cardiol:125: 220-231, 2008  

Detection of Atrial Fibrillation using model-based ECG, ICPR 2008 Conference of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR). Accepted, inb Tampera, Florida, IUSA, on Sep. 14-17, 2008

 

Manifold Learning for Premature Ventricular Contraction Detection, Published in 35th Conference Computers in Cardiology 2008, in Bologna, Italy, Sept. 14-17, 2008, in Bologna, Italy.

 
Moderate physical exercise: A simplified approach for ventricular rate control in older patients with atrial fibrillation, Published in Clin. Res. Cardiol.  

On the Detection of Premature Ventricular Contractions, Published in 30th Annual International IEEE EMBS Conference, in Vancouver, Canada, August, 20-24, 2008.

 

Heart Murmur Recognition and Segmentation by Complexity Signatures, Published at 10th Annual International IEEE EMBS Conference, in Vancouver, Canada, August, 20-24, 2008

 

Phase Space Reconstruction Approach for Ventricular Arrhythmias Characterization, Published at 30th Annual International IEEE EMBS Conference, in Vancouver, Canada, August 20-24, 2008

 
Influence of moderate physical exercise on mood and quality of life in older patients with atrial fibrillation, Published in Eur Psychiatry 23, Suppl2: p.260, 2008  
Atrial fibrillation analysis through a sparse decomposition technique, Published at The International Conference on BioMedical Engineering and Informatics (BMEI2008) in Valencia, Spain, May, 27-30, 2008  

Assessment of Arrhythmias for Heart Failure Management Published at International Workshop on Wearable Micro and Nanosystems for Personalised Health, May, 21-23, 2008

 
User interaction for people living with a chronic disease, Published at pHealth 2008 conference proceedings , Mat, 5, 2008  

La vanguardia National daily journal, Published at  Ropa inteligente para enfermos cardiacos, on April 14, 2008

 
Organized special session on Personal Healthcare together with Heartfaid project, Published at HealthInf conference Scientific Conference in Funchal, Portugal, Febr.1, 2008  
Organized the session "How to turn good research into business" - Experiences, Obstacles, Opportunities", Published at Pervasive Health conference Scientific Conference in Tampere, Finland, Feb. 1, 2008  

2007

Computerized therapy in speech pathologies, Published at Research. Stroke forum. Milan, Dec. 13, 2007
Congress of Indian Sleep Society, Published at  Clinical and Research in New Dehli, India, Dec.6-8, 2007
Ontology-based system for clinical trail data management, published in IEEE Benelux EMBS Symposium, by Sandra Geisler, Andreas Brauers, Christoph Quix, Anke Schmeink, Dec. 6-7, 2007 PDF
Conference: Workshop on management of pain, Published at IT at Clinical and Research in Milano, Italy, Dec. 4, 2007
New tecnologies in Patient Management. Conference,  Published at Medical devices industry in Spain, Nov. 26, 2007
Congress of Italian Society of GP (general practicioners), SING, Published at Clinical and Research in Milano, Ittaly, Nov. 23, 2007
Automatic Identification of Temporal Sequences in Chewing Sounds. Published at BIBM 2007: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, pp. 194-201, IEEE Press, San Jose, CA, USA, November 2007 by Oliver Amft, Martin Kusserow, and Gerhard Tröster.  PDF
Age-related changes in periodic leg movements during sleep in patients with restless legs syndrome., published in Sleep  Medicine, by Ferri R, Manconi M, Lanuzza B, Cosentino FI, Bruni O, Ferini-Strambi L, Zuccon, Nov. 15, 2007
Automatic Dietary Monitoring, Invited Talk, Conference: Workshop on Ambient Assisted Living Published at European Conference on Ambient Intelligence, Darmstadt, Germany, Nov. 11, 2007
Management of Chronic Heart Failure Patients. Conference, Published in Spain on Nov. 5, 2007
Congress of the Turkish Sleep Society, Bodrum (Turkey) Nov. 1-2, 2007
Automatic Identification of temporal structures in chewing Sounds, Conference, Published at IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, Oct.31- Nov 2, 2007
Automatic Identification of temporal structures in chewing Sounds, Conference: Published at IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, Oct.31- Nov 2, 2007
Health, Radio National channel GR1, in Italy on Oct. 25-27, 2007
Computer-assisted motor rehabilitation with wearable sensors: Demonstration of the patient workstation supporting motor rehabilitation with a sensorized garment. After an initial training phase, the workstation's algorithms detect subject's movement, verify its performance and provide a feedback in real time. (Flash video with audio, available in English and Italian language. Requires Flash player).  URL
Avatar animation by MEMS attitude sensor Attitude sensors allow realtime 3D animation of an avatar. Sensor fusion algorithms will merge data from MEMS sensors in order to complement garment readings.  (Flash video. Requires Flash player). URL
Choosing Real-Time Predictors For Ventricular Arrhythmias Detection, published in International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IJPRAI), World Scientific Publishing Company, Oct. 2007 by Ribeiro, B. and Marques, A. C. and Henriques, J. O. and Antunes, M
Recognizing Upper Body Postures using Textile Strain Sensors. In ISWC 2007: Published in proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers, pp. 29-36, IEEE Press, October 2007. Recipient of the IEEE ISWC 2007 Best Paper Award, by Corinne Mattmann, Oliver Amft, Holger Harms, Gerhard Tröster, and Frank Clemens. PDF
Congress of Italian Society of Neurology, SIN, Rome (IT), Oct.13-17, 2007
Health TV National channel (RAI1) ” Domenica In Italy, Oct. 14, 2007
Activity recognition and Automatic Dietary Monitoring, Published at Conference exhibition: International Symposium on Wearable Computers, Boston, USA, Oct. 9-15, 2007
Congress of Italian Society of Sleep Medicine, AIMS, Palermo (IT), Oct. 7, 2007
International Congress on Psychoncology IPOS, Torino (IT), Oct. 4, 2007
Recognition of user activity sequences using distributed event detection. Published at in EuroSSC 2007: Proceedings of the 2nd European Conference on Smart Sensing and Context, pp. 126-141, Springer, October 2007, by Oliver Amft, Clemens Lombriser, Thomas Stiefmeier, and Gerhard Tröster. PDF
Premature Ventricular Beat Detection by Using Spectral Clustering Methods Proc. of the Computers in Cardiology, pp. 149-152, Vol. 34, ISSN 0276−6574, Conference on Computers in Cardiology, Sep. 2007
ECG Compression through segment matching and progressive error encoding, Published at Conference,  EMBC -2007, 29th Annual Intern. Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Sep. 23-29, 2007
Detection of Sleep Apnea from surface ECG based on features extracted by an Autoregressive Model Conference presentation, Published at  IEEE_EMBC 2007, Sep. 23-29, 2007
Sleep Monitoring Through a Textile Recording System Conference presentation IEEE_EMBC 2007, 23-26/09/2007

Detection of Sleep Apnea from surface ECG based on features extracted by an Autoregressive Model, published in IEEE-EMBC Proceedings 2007, 23-26/09/2007, by Mendez MO, Ruini DM, Villantieri OP, Matteucci M, Penzel T, Cerutti S and Bianchi AM

Sleep Monitoring Through a Textile Recording System, published in IEEE-EMBC Proceedings 2007, 23-26/09/2007,by  S.Devot, A.M. Bianchi, E. Naujokat, M.O. Mendez, A.Brauers,   S.Cerutti
Automatic Dietary Monitoring, Presentation at e-Nutrition 2007 workshop, 15-09-2007
An ECG Compression Approach Based on a Segment Dictionary and Bezier Approximations Conference 15th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO-2007), 3-7/09/2007
Near Real Time Noise Detection During Heart Sound Acquisition Conference 15th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO-2007), 3-7/09/2007
Third Heart Sound Detection Using Wavelet Transform–Simplicity Filter Conference EMBC -2007, 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 23-26/08/2007
EMBC Lyon, Conference (stand CEA), 23-26/08/2007
Remote Support for Stroke Rehabilitation: MyHeart's "Neurological Rehabilitation" Concept, published in Papers on Proceedings of International Conference Medinfo 2007, Aug. 2007, by T. Giorgino, P. Tormene, B. Cattani, C. Pistarini, S. Quaglini PDF
A Multivariate Time-Warping Based Classifier for Gesture Recognition with Wearable Strain Sensors, published in EMBS07 - IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Aug. 2007, by Toni Giorgino, Paolo Tormene, Silvana Quaglini PDF
LuxTrace - indoor positioning using building illumination. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 11(6):417-428, August 2007, by Julian Randall, Oliver Amft, Jürgen Bohn, and Martin Burri PDF
Conference: “User Interaction Design for a Wearable and IT based Heart Failure System” at Human Computer Interaction International 2008, Beijing, China, 26-07-2007
Human Computer Interaction International 2007 Conference proceedings at  User Interaction Design for a Wearable and IT based Heart Failure System, 26-07-2007
User Interaction Design for a Wearable and IT based Heart Failure System, published in Lectures Notes in Computer ScienceSC 4551: 1230-1239 2007, July 2007, by E Villalba, I Peinado, MT Arredondo
Conference: “User-centered system to manage Heart Failure in a mobile environment” at Medicon 2007 Liubljana, Slovenia, 29-06-2007
Conference: invited keynote presentation “User-centered system to manage Heart Failure in a mobile environment” at User Modelling 2007 Corfu, Greece, 25-06-2007
Conference: “User Interaction in an AmI context: solution for pHealth in chronic diseases” and DEMO at pHealth 2007 Porto Carras, Challkidiki, Greece, Jun. 21, 2007
pHealth Applications Developed by LST-UPM and TSB-ITACA in the Framework of EU R&D Projects, 20-22 June, 2007, partners involved PRL-A, ITACA, UPM  PDF
Oral presentation: Optimization of physical activity to fight the Metabolic Syndrome, , June 20-22, 2007, partners involved ITACA, UPV PDF
Instrumental Kinesiology approach in neurorehabilitation. Jun. 14-16, 2007
Research.CyberTherapy 12 Conference. Washington DC-US, 11-14/06/2007

Instrumental Kinesiology approach in neurorehabilitation. Jun. 14-16, 2007Research.CyberTherapy 12 Conference. Washington DC-US, 11-14/06/2007

User-centered system to manage Heart Failure in a mobile environment, published in Paper on proceedings of Medicon 2007, May 2007, by E Villalba, D Salvi, M Ottaviano, I Peinado, MT Arredondo, M Docampo
Effective on-line QRS detection, feature extraction and PVC classification for early prevention of cardiac arrhythmias, published in FCT-University of Coimbra, M.Sc. thesis, Apr. 2007, by Amândio Marques
Waving Real Hand Gestures Recorded by Wearable Motion Sensors to a Virtual Car and Driver in a Mixed-Reality Parking Game. In CIG 2007: Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games, pp. 32-39, IEEE Press, April 2007, by David Bannach, Oliver Amft, Kai S. Kunze, Ernst. A. Heinz, Gerhard Tröster, and Paul Lukowicz. PDF
Le quotidien du médecin : ‘Le CEA travaille pour la Santé’ press release, Apr. 23, 2007
Probabilistic parsing of dietary activity events. In BSN 2007: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks, pp. 242-247, Springer, March 2007, by Oliver Amft, Martin Kusserow, and Gerhard Tröster.  PDF
“Smart Fabrics and Interactive Textile: state of the art and future challenges”; Conference, Aachen, Germany, Mar. 26, 2007
MEDEC Exhibition, France, Mar. 14-16, 2007
Multi Stakeholder Co-Assessment: a process to guide the selection of personal healthcare innovations, published in INCLUDE, Mar. 2007 by Philips Design Eindhoven
Desiging for Health Care and Wellbeing: Envisioning Transitions, published in INCLUDE, Mar. 2007 by Philips Design Eindhoven
Heart Failure monitoring system based on Wearable and Information Technologies, published in Journal of Communication Vol. 2. No. 2, Page (s): 10-21. Academia Publisher, Mar. 2007 by E Villalba, MT Arredondo, M Ottaviano, D Salvi, E del Hoyo-Barbolla, S Guillen
Probabilistic parsing of dietary activity events, published  in BSN 2007: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks, Mar. 2007 by Oliver Amft and Martin Kusserow and Gerhard Tröster
The MyHeart Project. In L. van Langenhove, editors, Book chapter in: Smart textiles for medicine and healthcare, by Oliver Amft and Jörg Habetha. pp. 275-297, Woodhead Publishing Ltd, Cambridge, England, February 2007. ISBN 1 84569 027 3 PDF

2006

General Project Leaflet test  PDF 
Sensing Fabrics for Monitoring Physiological and Biomechanical Variables: E-textile solutions Published by M.Pacelli, G.Loriga., N.Taccini and R.Paradiso in Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE-EMBS International Summer School and Symposium on Medical Devices and Biosensors MIT, Boston, USA, Sept.4-6, 2006 PDF
Advances in textile technologies for unobtrusive monitoring of vital parameters and movements. Published by Rita Paradiso, Danilo De Rossi in Proceedings of the 28th IEEE EMBS Annual International Conference New York City, USA, Aug 30-Sept 3, 2006 PDF
Long term monitoring of circadian variations of activity and ECG: Clinical application of a new data aquisition system. Published in Somnologie, Issue 3, August 2006, by Naujokat E., Arndt M., Novak D. and Norra C. PDF
Conference (Serious Games Summit, San José, USA) 2006-03 PDF
Sensing Muscle Activities with Body-Worn Sensors, Published by Oliver Amft, Holger Junker, Paul Lukowicz, Gerhard Tr¨oster and Corina Schuster PDF
Long-term Monitoring of Circadian Variations of Activity and ECG: Clinical Application of a New Data Acquisition System. 
Published by Elke Naujokat, Marlies Arndt, Daniel Novak and Christine Norra. of UKA Aachen
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Restless Legs Syndrome Prevalence and Impact,
Published by Richard P. Allen, PhD; Arthur S. Walters, MD; Jacques Montplaisir, MD, PhD; Wayne Hening, MD, PhD; Andrew Myers, PhD; Timothy J. Bell, PhD; Luigi Ferini-Strambi, MD
in ARCH INTERN MED/VOL 165, JUNE 13, 2005 and Downloaded from www.archinternmed.com at F
ondazione Centro S Raffaelle, on August 24, 2006
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 BSN2006 (Boston)

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Virtual Trainer Using Smart Wearable Devices. Paper.

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2005

Approval Summary for Erlotinib for Treatment of Patients with LocallyAdvanced orMetastatic Non Small Cell Lung Cancer after Failure of at Least One Prior Chemotherapy Regimen 
Published by John R. Johnson,Martin Cohen, Rajeshwari Sridhara,Yeh-Fong Chen, GeneM.Williams, John Duan, Jogarao Gobburu, Brian Booth, Kimberly Benson, John Leighton, Li Shan Hsieh, Nallalerumal Chidambaram, Paul Zimmerman, and Richard Pazdur in Clin Cancer Res 2005;11(18) September 15, 2005, see www.aacrjournals.org
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Clinical Sleep Research in the GCRC 
Published by Beth A. Malow, M.D., M.S. Associate Professor of Neurology Director, Vanderbilt Sleep Disorders Center in TIME, Feb,  2005
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The screening of sleep disordered breathing (SDB) by a simple ambulatory tool: comparison between the SleepStrip and an 8-channels cardiorespiratory monitoring device. 
Published by V. Castronovo, D. Bizzozero, M.L. Fantini, M. Manconi, L. Ferini-Strambi
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EEG synchronisation during sleep-related epileptic seizures as a new tool to discriminate confusional arousals from paroxysmal arousals: preliminary findings. 
Published by M. Zucconi • M. Manconi • D. Bizzozero • F. Rundo • C.J. Stam • L. Ferini-Strambi • R. Ferri in Neurol Sci (2005) 26:s199–s204 DOI 10.1007/s10072-005-0487-5
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Depressive Storungen bei Herzinsuffizienz. 
Published in "Neuro-Psychiatrische Nachrichten Dec. 2005"  

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Monitoring von Aktivitätsprofil und Herzfrequenzvariabilität: Ein neues Messsystem in der klinischen Anwendung", poster.
Published in GDSM 2005

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Interactive Information Environment for the controlled practice of physical training to improve cardiovascular fitness. 
Published at EMBS 2005

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Impact of sleep-related breathing disorders in health-related quality of life in pationst with chronic heart failure. 
Published in "The European Journal of Heart Failure, 07-2005 

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Monitoring von aktivitatsprofil und herzfrequenzvariabilitat: ein neues messystem in der klinischen anwendung.  
Published in Somnologie 9 (Suppl.1) 1-58, 2005

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Analysis of Chewing Sounds for Dietary Monitoring,
Published by Oliver Amft, Mathias St¨ager, Paul Lukowicz and Gerhard Tr¨oster in UbiComp 2005: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, p. 56-72, Tokyo, Japan, 11.-14. Sep. 2005
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Detection of eating and drinking arm gestures using inertial body-worn sensors, 
Published by Oliver Amft, Holger Junker, Gerhard Tr¨oster Wearable Computing Lab, IfE, ETH Zurich, Switzerland {amft, junker, troester}@ife.ee.ethz.ch in  
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A new data acquisition system for monitoring circadian variations of activity and ECG.  
Published in Sleep Medicine 6S2 S1-S215 (Oral presentations)

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Ein neues messsystem zum monitoring von aktivitatsprofil und herzfrequenzvariabilitat.  
Published in Somnologie 9 (Suppl.1) 1-58, 2005

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Restless Legs Syndrome Rating Scale
Published by "The International Restless Legs Syndrome Study Group" which holds the copyright for this scale.
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Clinical Spectrum, Morbidity, and Mortality in 113 Pediatric Patients With Mitochondrial Disease
Published by Fernando Scaglia, MD; Jeffrey A. Towbin, MD; William J. Craigen, MD, PhD; John W. Belmont, MD, PhD; E. O’Brian Smith, PhD; Stephen R. Neish, MD; Stephanie M. Ware, MD, PhD; Jill V. Hunter, MBBS; Susan D. Fernbach, RN; Georgirene D. Vladutiu, PhD¶; Lee-Jun C. Wong, PhD; and Hannes Vogel, MD in http://www.pediatrics.org/cgi/content/full/114/4/925
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Effect of cardiac resynchronization therapy  on sleep quality, quality of life, and symptomatic depression in patients with chronic heart failure and Cheyne-Stokes respiration.  
Published in " Sleep Breathing DOI 10.1007/s11325-005-0030-1"

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REM sleep behaviour disorder.
Published by L. Ferini-Strambi • M.L. Fantini • M. Zucconi • V. Castronovo • S. Marelli • A. Oldani • S. Cappa in Neurol Sci (2005) 26:s186–s192 DOI 10.1007/s10072-005-0485-7
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EMBEC2005 (Prague)

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Depressive Storungen bei Herzinsuffizienz: Diagnistische und therapeutische Optionen. 
Published by C.Norra of UKA  Aachen, DGPPN Kongress 2005
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Tampere Crossing´2005 Conference Keynote:  “Mobile Internet is more than web”

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Nocturnal groaning: just a sound or parasomnia
Published by A. Oldani, M. Manconi, M. Zucconi, V. Castronovo and L. Fernini-Strambi,  Sleep Disorders Centre, Department of Neurology, HSR Turro and Universita` Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy Accepted in revised form 11 April 2005; received 8 February 2005
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2004

Parkinsonism with excessive daytime sleepiness.  A narcolepsy-like disorder 
Published by Christian Baumann Luigi Ferini-Strambi Daniel Waldvogel Esther Werth Claudio Lino Bassetti in J Neurol (2005) 252 : 139–145 DOI 10.1007/s00415-005-0614-5

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Aggressive dream content without daytime aggressiveness in REM sleep behavior disorder. 
Published by M.L. Fantini, MD, MSc; A. Corona, MPs; S. Clerici, PhD; and L. Ferini-Strambi, MD.
Additional material related to this article can be found on the Neurology Web site. Go to www.neurology.org and scroll down the Table of Contents for the October 11, 2004,  issue to find the title link for this article.
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Risks of general anaesthesia in people with obstructive sleep apnoea
Published by Cindy den Herder, Joachim Schmeck, Dick J K Appelboom and Nico de Vries in bmj.com on 22 October 2004
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A new data acquisition system for monitoring circadian variations of activity and ECG: Clincal application. 
Published by Naujokat E., Arndt M., Novak D. and Norra C. of UKA Aachen

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Frequency of narcolepsy symptoms and other sleep disorders in narcoleptic patients and their first-degree relatives.
Published by M. M. Ohayoni, L. Ferini-Strambi, G. Plazzi, S. Smirne and V.Castronovo,
Accepted in revised form 27 June 2005; received 26 January 2004

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Idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder Toward a better nosologic definition.
Published by Maria Livia Fantini, MD, MSc; Luigi Ferini-Strambi, MD; and Jacques Montplaisir, MD, PhD in NEUROLOGY 2005;64:780–786

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Isolated Complex I Deficiency in Children: Clinical, Biochemical and Genetic Aspects
Published by J.L.C.M. Loeffen, J.A.M. Smeitink,* J.M.F. Trijbels, A.J.M. Janssen, R.H. Triepels, R.C.A. Sengers, and L.P. van den Heuvel in HUMAN MUTATION 15:123.134 (2000)
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Snoring & Sleep Apnea: A Population Study in Italian Women
Published by Luigi Ferini-Strambi, Marco Zucconi, Vincenza Castronovo, Paola Garancini ,* Alessandro Oldani, and Salvatore Smirne in SLEEP, Vol. 22, No. 7, 1999 Snoring and Sleep Apnea—Ferini-Strambi et al
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