About the Authors
- Michael J. Prerau
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* E-mail: prerau@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
Affiliation Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Katie E. Hartnack
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Affiliation Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Gabriel Obregon-Henao
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Affiliation Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Aaron Sampson
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Affiliation Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Margaret Merlino
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Affiliation Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Karen Gannon
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Affiliation Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Matt T. Bianchi
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Affiliation Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Jeffrey M. Ellenbogen
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Affiliation Johns Hopkins University, Department of Neurology, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Patrick L. Purdon
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Affiliation Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America
Competing Interests
MJP and PLP have patents pending on the monitoring of sleep and anesthesia. MTB has a patent pending for a sleep monitoring device, has consulting agreements with Sunovion on drug-development (<$2000 anticipated in 2014, the first year of the relationship) and is on the clinical advisory board for Foramis (<$2000 anticipated in 2014, the first year of the relationship). JME received an honorarium (<$1000) from presenting Grand Rounds. All other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MJP PLP. Performed the experiments: MJP KEH GOH AS MM KG PLP. Analyzed the data: MJP AS KH KG PLP. Wrote the paper: MJP MTB JME PLP. Data interpretation: MJP PLP MTB JME Facilitated use of the MGH Sleep Laboratory: JME MTB.