Sentences with phrase «during slow wave»

Cortisol is at its lowest and growth hormone is at its highest during slow wave sleep (deepest stage of sleep).

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The spike in the use of sleeping pills has caused some alarm, with critics warning that these pills — sometimes known as benzos — actually cut down on critical REM sleep and slow - wave sleep during which we consolidate information, and pose a risk of dependence.

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While these brain rhythms, occurring hundreds of times a night, move in perfect lockstep in young adults, findings published in the journal Neuron show that, in old age, slow waves during non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep fail to make timely contact with speedy electrical bursts known as «spindles.»

At the whole system level, though, electroencephalographic electrodes on the skull pick up slow, large and highly synchronized waves during deep sleep.

Slow - wave sleep is also the time when neurons rest and the brain clears away the molecular byproducts of mental activity that accumulate during the day, when the brain is busily thinking and working.

Shown are brain waves during slow - wave sleep, measured as a study participant slept.

While slow wave sleep was greater in those with a TBI they also had less non-REM stage 1 sleep, a form of very light sleep seen during the wake - to - sleep transition.

The next morning, the participants who had been beeped out of slow - wave sleep reported feeling tired and unrefreshed, even though they had slept just as long as usual and rarely recalled being awakened during the night.

Slow oscillations in brain activity, which occur during so - called slow - wave sleep, are critical for retaining memorSlow oscillations in brain activity, which occur during so - called slow - wave sleep, are critical for retaining memorslow - wave sleep, are critical for retaining memories.

Yet average slow - wave activity was shallower in their left hemisphere during the first night — an asymmetry that was enhanced in those who took longer to fall asleep.

During slow - wave sleep, the hippocampus — a region of the brain that stores recent, episodic memories about discrete events — replays its files for the neocortex, home to more permanent memories.

Scalp electrodes worn at night by nine villagers during nine nights revealed biological signs of relatively light sleep compared with Westerners, including shorter periods of slow - wave and rapid eye movement sleep.

They found that sounding a buzzer during «slow wave» sleep triggered sleepwalking in three of the sleepwalkers under normal circumstances, and all 10 sleepwalkers when they had been kept awake for 25 hours prior to sleeping.

Also, while in lizards slow - wave and REM - sleep have roughly equal durations during each cycle, REM is much shorter then slow - wave sleep in mammals, and both short and irregular in birds.

Another common feature with mammalian sleep was the coordinated activity of cortex with another area during slow - wave sleep: in dragons this other area is the so - called dorsal ventricular ridge.

During slow - wave sleep, groups of neurons firing at the same time generate brain waves with triple rhythms: slow oscillations, spindles, and ripples.

During a 90 - minute nap, one of the tunes was played over and over during slow - wave sleep, which is thought to be an important period for memory consolidDuring a 90 - minute nap, one of the tunes was played over and over during slow - wave sleep, which is thought to be an important period for memory consolidduring slow - wave sleep, which is thought to be an important period for memory consolidation.

«During sleep, maybe specific brain regions have slow waves at the same time because they need to exchange information with each other, whereas other ones don't,» says Laura Lewis, a research affiliate in MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and one of the lead authors of the new study, which appears in the journal eLife.

We previously found that slow - wave phase at time of stimulation predicts this behavioral memory benefit, supporting the hypothesis that memory reactivation is most likely during cortical upstates (Batterink, Creery & Paller, 2016).

These brain waves are thought to emerge from the thalamus and are generally associated with slow - wave sleep (during stages three and four of the stages of sleep.)

Numerous sleep researchers noticed the similarity of the K - complex to other brain waves, namely those that the brain produces during its most restful periods — slow wave sleep.

Dr. Jessica Payne will discuss selective emotional memory consolidation in middle aged adults demonstrating that, in this understudied age - group, slow wave sleep during a daytime nap supports emotional memory consolidation although this process weakens with age.

Epileptic encephalopathies of the Landau - Kleffner and continuous spike and waves during slow - wave sleep types: genomic dissection makes the link wi...

Another published in 2011 found that healthy men 65 and older with normal blood pressure were nearly twice as likely to develop hypertension during the study if they spent less time in the deepest sleep stage (known as slow - wave sleep) compared with those who spent the most time deeply asleep.

The largest such release occurs about an hour after falling asleep during slow - wave REM sleep.

Nearly half of the body's daily supply comes during periods of deep, slow - wave sleep.

Roughly half of your body's production of growth hormone occurs during deep, slow - wave sleep at night.

Nearly half of the day's secretion of HGH occurs during deep, slow - wave sleep with the biggest burst coming between 11:30 pm and midnight.

The body secretes about half of its daily supply of growth hormone during periods of deep, slow - wave sleep — especially right around midnight.

Human growth hormone release occurs in pulsatile bursts throughout the day and night (during deep, slow - wave sleep).

When scientists looked at the brain waves of exercisers versus non-exercisers during the night, they found that those who work out experience more slow wave sleep.

Neuroscientist mapping the brain states accessed during meditation say that meditation slows the patterns called delta waves.

«On a night following sleep deprivation, we'll have significantly more slow - wave sleep to compensate for the loss,» study author Jordan Gaines... said... «We also know that we lose slow - wave sleep most rapidly during early adolescence.

Quality of sleep was identical across both groups, suggesting that slow wave sleep — during which growth hormone is released — was unaffected by carb intake.

During NREM sleep, the frequency of the brain waves slows further, whereas the amplitude continues to increase.

During the battle, when the Americans are about to fall to the British, Martin picks up Old Glory again, waves it around in slow - motion, and inspires his men to beat the crap out of the Brits.

«Dogs and humans have the same type of slow wave sleep (SWS) and rapid eye movement (REM) and during this REM stage dogs can dream.

Considerably more popular than Batu Karas, though still with some good waves, Pangandaran gets busy during the day, but come the evening there is plenty of fodder for long slow walks with a setting sun.

It's a great visual effect and also a helpful aid to slow down the onslaught of enemies that come in waves during fairly predictable firefight sequences.

Kikuchi K., G. N. Kiladis, J. Dias and T. Nasuno (August 2017): Convectively coupled equatorial waves within the MJO during CINDY / DYNAMO: slow Kelvin waves as building blocks.