About the Authors

Michael J. Prerau

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

Affiliation Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America

Gabriel Obregon-Henao

Affiliation Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America

Aaron Sampson

Affiliation Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America

Margaret Merlino

Affiliation Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts, United States of America

Karen Gannon

Affiliation Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts, United States of America

Matt T. Bianchi

Affiliation Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jeffrey M. Ellenbogen

Affiliation Johns Hopkins University, Department of Neurology, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Patrick L. Purdon

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.