Any researchers who have tried to combine multiple datasets or validate findings in another dataset know how heterogeneity across datasets can make the process difficult or even impossible. At NSRR, we are working to address these challenges by standardizing and harmonizing important sleep measures and non-sleep covariates retrospectively. Standardization aims to reach uniformity in metadata across datasets, be it channel labels, annotations, variable definitions, sleep terminology, etc. Keep reading
The NSRR is constantly developing new tools to improve its user experience. One of the newly developed applications, as inspired by the Dementias Platform, is the Cohort Matrix. The NSRR cohort matrix consists of three tabs: "Cohort Overview" tab provides summary of the key characteristics (e.g. sample size, age range, license, etc.), sleep data availability (e.g. polysomnography EDF files, actigraphy, etc.) and links back to the dataset introduction page. Keep reading