How to Objectively Measure The Quality of Sleep

Sleep is of paramount importance for resetting brain and body function. While newborns tend to sleep most of their day hours, geriatric population often suffers of lack of enough sleep. Most of the people will subjectively complain about their sleep, at least at one point in their life. While life requirements and schedule might play a major aspect in this, other sleep disorders should be ruled out. There is thus a need to use objective measures to better assess sleep quality and quantity. We will briefly review some of the most interesting modalities in our opinion.