Cleveland Clinic: Pinpoint the Location of Airway Collapse in Sleeping Individuals
AWARD: $20,000 USD | DEADLINE: 2/17/12 | ACTIVE SOLVERS: 131 | POSTED: 11/22/11
Seeking a method or device to determine the specific location of airway collapse in individuals suffering from obstructive sleep apnea.
Source: InnoCentive Challenge ID: 9932795
Challenge Overview
Obstructive sleep apnea is caused by collapse somewhere along the airway, but there is currently no reliable way to determine the specific cause or location of collapse. This Challenge is focused on discovering a method, device, or technology that can identify where mechanical collapse is occurring in an individual’s airway while that individual is sleeping naturally.
This is a Theoretical Challenge that requires only a written proposal to be submitted. The Challenge award will be contingent upon theoretical evaluation of the proposal by the Seeker. To receive an award, the Solvers will have to transfer to the Seeker their exclusive Intellectual Property (IP) rights to the solution.
Further information, Nature.com:
This is a Theoretical Challenge that requires only a written proposal to be submitted. The Challenge award will be contingent upon theoretical evaluation of the proposal by the Seeker. To receive an award, the Solvers will have to transfer to the Seeker their exclusive Intellectual Property (IP) rights to the solution.
Further information, Nature.com:
What is the difference between sleep and death.
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Jaylen dear,
ReplyDeleteI am not sure if you are a school student or someone who knows this subject well.
Sleep is a huge topic in itself and death has it's own biology, negating the religious, and other beliefs people developed over centuries. I am not interested in those, but as a NeuroScientist and clinician, a Neurophysiologist I will stick the REALITY of Sleep and Death.
In simple terms, sleep is an altered state of awake, whatever happens during awake, most if not all body and brain functions continue during sleep in an altered way. For example, the electrical activities are present and contintued, some of the waveforms are alered during sleep. There two different types of sleep such as Rapid Eye Movement (REM) and Non-REM sleep, and there are stages of sleep in each state certain waveforms with specific frequency and amplitude are active, and those are different during awake, active, excercise and so on.
The bottom line is brain and body is active during sleep, but
in Death, everything ceases, from slow and suppressed EEGs, EMGs, Eyemovements to cessation of all. All the brain waves will vanish, and all the eectrical activities stop, generally termed as brain dead, then scientifically, clinically a person is Dead. Not only brain activity stops, all the organs in the body start shutting down, and then cells will die within minutes, hours to a day or two, then there will be no longer any live cells in the body other than bacteria and other organisms that involve in decay and decomposition of the dead cells, organs and whole body.
in One Line, during sleep brain and body is still working, and after death, every thing stops.
Hope this helps in your school assignments?.
Best wishes