Sentences with phrase «rem phase»

Rock starts with the discovery of the REM phase of sleep by a University of Chicago graduate student who regularly wired up his 8 year old son with electrodes in the interest of science.

Stuck's team waited until their subjects had entered the REM phase of sleep, the stage at which most dreams occur, and then exposed them to a high dose of smelly air for 10 seconds before waking them up one minute later.

Is the REM phase influencing the outcome?

The research team concentrated on a non-REM deep sleep phase that generally happens throughout the night, in alternation with the REM phase.

The study concluded that impaired sleeping during the deep REM phases are strongly related to a calcium deficiency.

And earlier this year, Fitbit started showing even more detail around sleeping patterns, distinguishing REM phases from light and deep sleep phases.

Not exact matches

As adults we start off by falling into 2 lighter phases of sleep, followed by the deeper stage (non-REM), and then into our dream stage (REM) before starting all over again.

During the night, people fall in and out of REM and non-REM sleep; REM (rapid eye movement) sleep is lighter and easier to disrupt; during this phase of sleep the mind is still active and this is when dreams and nightmares take place.

Nightmares happen during the REM cycle of sleep, whereas night terrors occur during a phase of sleep when dreaming does not occur.

Infants actually spend much more time in REM sleep — about 50 to 80 percent of their sleep time is spent in this phase.

It is possible for your baby to get REM sleep and wake himself up again before entering the deep sleep phase.

Nunn and Samson estimated that people now spend an average of 1.56 hours of snooze time in REM, about as much as the models predict should be spent in that sleep phase.

The largest effect was on the number of times the mice went in and out of a sleep phase called paradoxical sleep, which resembles REM (rapid eye movement) sleep in humans, when dreams occur and memories are strengthened.

Recently, the spotlight has focused on REM sleep as the most important phase for locking memories into long - term encoding.

In humans, sleep is also characterized by brain activity: periods of slow - wave activity are each followed by short phases of Rapid - Eye - Movement sleep (REM sleep).

In their report, Laurent and his colleagues describe the existence of REM and slow - wave sleep in the Australian dragon, with many common features with mammalian sleep: a phase characterized by low frequency / high amplitude average brain activity and rare and bursty neuronal firing (slow - wave sleep); another characterized by awake - like brain activity and rapid eye movements.

For decades, scientists have fiercely debated whether rapid eye movement (REM) sleep — the phase where dreams appear — is directly involved in memory formation.

When the subjects viewed the same pictures in the morning, those who had been deprived of dream - filled REM sleep were less emotionally affected than those deprived of other sleep phases.

The amount of time spent in each sleep phase — stage 1, stage 2, slow wave sleep (or SWS — stage 3 and 4 combined) and REM sleep — was determined and expressed in minutes and as a percentage of total sleep time.

We might shift slightly during sleep — say, when an arm becomes numb — without even realizing it, probably around the time in each sleep cycle when we exit deep REM sleep and enter the lightest phase of sleep, Dr. Paruthi says.

According to the U.S. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, sleep involves five distinct phases, which broadly track from light sleep to deep sleep to REM sleep.

It's when the digestive system is most relaxed and it's when we dream, during a phase of sleep called REM.

Dr. Justin Marchegiani: And REM Rehab, all about sleep, getting into the deeper phases of sleep where you heal and reduce inflammation.

They found that calcium levels in the body are at their highest during the deepest levels of sleep such as the rapid eye movement (REM) sleep phase.

In fact, it goes back and forth between two phases: rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, which is when dreams typically happen, and non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep, which is when the body bolsters your immune system, builds muscle and bone, and mends and regenerates tissues.

To examine the prospective association of sugar intake from sweet food and beverages, a random effects logistic regression model (REM) was performed using the STATA command xtlogit 48, with exposures at phases 3, 5, 7 and 9 for GHQ caseness, and at phases 7 and 9 for CES - D caseness.

The dog entered a deeper sleep phase (known as REM — rapid eye movement) where his breathing became more irregular, his mental activity heightened, and his eyes began to move rapidly.

They have a rapid eye movement (REM) phase, where you may see twitching whiskers, «running» feet, and jerking facial muscles.

Interestingly enough, this is because cats do go through non-REM and REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep phases.

The New Museum Board of Trustees, Lisa Phillips, Toby Devan Lewis Director, and Massimiliano Gioni, Edlis Neeson Artistic Director, announced yesterday that OMA / Rem Koolhaas and Shohei Shigematsu have been selected as the design architects for the Museum's next phase of expansion.

The New Museum is gearing up for its next phase of expansion, which will be headed by design architects Rem Koolhaas and Shohei Shigematsu of OMA.

There are artists you might expect — Reginald Marsh, Weegee, Red Grooms — and others you might well not: Stella, Milton Avery, Rem Koolhaas (from his «Delirious New York» phase).

Most people have an average sleep cycle of 90 minutes where they go from light sleep to deep sleep and eventually REM sleep before coming back up through the phases to light sleep again.

In response to questions from REM, Greg Scott of the Competition Bureau would not comment specifically on the Beach case, but did confirm that an observer from the bureau was present during the hearings phase of this trial last summer.