Sentences with phrase «as rapid eye movement sleep»

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This part of sleep is known as the rapid eye movement or REM stage because the eyes are rapidly moving beneath closed eyelids.

As your baby sleeps deeply, he or she exhibits all the characteristics of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep.

As we sleep, our brains pass through five stages of sleep — stages 1, 2, 3, 4, and REM (rapid eye movement) sleep.

Watch your little one for signs of hunger, such as sucking sounds and / or lip movements, rapid eye movement during the light sleep cycle and changes in facial expression.

Typically, the rapid eye movement (REM) stage is when we are dreaming, but night terrors do not actually occur during this stage as they are not a dream but a sudden reaction of fear from one transitory stage of sleep to another.

REM sleep stands for rapid eye movement sleep and is defined as the light portion of the sleep cycle where the eyes move back and forth rapidly.

As sleep declined, rapid - eye movement, or REM — sleep linked to learning and memory (SN: 6/11/16, p. 15)-- came to play an outsize role in human slumber, the researchers propose.

The group used a combination of monitoring methods collectively known as polysomnography to check whether the participants were in the rapid eye movement (REM) state of sleep, in which we tend to have most of our dreams.

This state became known as rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, to distinguish it from deep sleep.

Inhibiting the same area of the brain with similar techniques increased the amount of time mice slept, especially non-REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, although sleep was not instant upon drug administration, as has been shown for other parts of the arousal system, Pedersen says.

Other risk factors for diabetes included AHI during rapid eye movement sleep and measures of the physiologic consequences of OSA, including oxygen desaturation, sleep deprivation and activation of the sympathetic nervous system, as indicated by a higher mean heart rate during sleep.

EMDR proponents have invoked a dizzying array of explanations for the apparent effectiveness of the lateral eye movements: distraction, relaxation, synchronization of the brain's two hemispheres, and simulation of the eye movements of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep have all emerged as candidates.

The brain generates two distinct types of sleep — slow - wave sleep (SWS), known as deep sleep, and rapid eye movement (REM), also called dreaming sleep.

As sleep declined, rapid - eye movement — or REM — sleep took on an outsize role in humans, Nunn and Samson propose.

«One theory is that there's some crossover with rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, also known as dream sleep,» says Neil Kline, DO, a sleep disorder physician in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and a representative of the American Sleep Associasleep, also known as dream sleep,» says Neil Kline, DO, a sleep disorder physician in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and a representative of the American Sleep Associasleep,» says Neil Kline, DO, a sleep disorder physician in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and a representative of the American Sleep Associasleep disorder physician in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and a representative of the American Sleep AssociaSleep Association.

The findings revealed that individuals following a Mediterranean diet had reduced sleep apnea symptoms such as a decreased amount of disturbances, called apneas, while in the rapid eye movement (REM) stage of sleep, which normally makes up about 25 % of total sleep throughout the night.

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.

During some parts of sleep, such as rapid eye movement (REM), the brain's metabolism actually rises significantly, he explains.

Humans and dogs share the same SWS (slow wave sleep) as well as REM (rapid eye movement) while asleep.

This is due to having the same type of rapid eye movement and slow wave sleep as humans.

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.

Dogs can have rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, just as we do.