ABSTRACT
This chapter presents resources, including sleep researchers, sleep societies, and reputable journals and provides standard methods used in sleep research, including the 'gold standard' polysomnography, scientific-grade activity monitoring and subjective surveys. It also discusses validity, which is arguably one of the most relevant issues in sleep research and deals with a few comments about the inexpensive and tempting 'sleep trackers' that have flooded the consumer market. Sleep researchers and clinicians form a highly interdisciplinary and supportive global community. Sleep technologists or technicians prepare patients for sleep evaluations and process the output from overnight records prior to physician interpretation. While a wide swath of top-tier journals publishes sleep science, there are also several well-respected, scientific journals dedicated exclusively to the dissemination of sleep science. These include Sleep Medicine Reviews; SLEEP; Sleep Medicine; Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine; Sleep and Breathing; Journal of Sleep Research; Behavioral Sleep Medicine; Sleep and Biological Rhythms.
