Sentences with phrase «from wakefulness»

Scientists have found the first step toward discovering the biochemistry that controls the switch from wakefulness to sleep.

Every night we all participate in a small biological miracle — the transition from wakefulness to sleep.

Most babies fall asleep while being rocked and while sucking, since the rhythms of these actions are similar to the rhythm of sleep and the brain cells easier pass from wakefulness to sleep stage.

• Metabolic disorders affecting the transition from wakefulness to sleep stage.

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I can not help but wonder why you would choose to interpret this experience (which sounds to me like that fuzzy, disorienting transitional state between sleep and wakefulness that we all experience from time to time) as meeting your god.

Otto Warmbier from Ohio left the secretive state in a coma, with doctors describing his state as «unresponsive wakefulness» and reporting he had suffered an «severe neurological injury» of an unknown cause.

In addition, SnoozyPod is Bluetooth enabled, so caretakers can activate the functions on their phone from anywhere in the home, without encouraging wakefulness by entering their room.

When researchers looked at their brain activity during these times, they saw that one hemisphere of the brain had electrical patterns resembling nighttime sleep, whereas patterns from the other hemisphere indicated wakefulness.

Patients in a state of unresponsive wakefulness had 38 % as much metabolic activity as the controls, minimally conscious patients showed 58 % as much activity, and people being roused back to consciousness (either from sleep or anesthesia), had 63 % of the normal metabolic activity.

The team recorded data from 12 participants in states of wakefulness, ongoing sedation, unconsciousness, and recovery.

Cortical theta oscillations were observed during the transition from sleep and during quiet wakefulness; however, the authors were unable to find any correlation between hippocampal and cortical theta waves, and concluded that the two processes are probably controlled by independent mechanisms.

Many seniors get disturbed sleep from recurring wakefulness, leading to a range of disorders including memory loss.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), an estimated 50 to 70 million Americans are suffering from a sleeping or wakefulness disorder.10 As a result, many of them turn to various remedies, such as behavioral and environmental changes, to get a good night's rest.11 One of the first things you can do is to make sure that your body is producing enough melatonin.

Hypocretin neurons have the ability to incite energetic wakefulness, and to prevent a person from falling asleep, should his body detect a «starved» state.

This product differs from most sleep aids in that it actually encourages wakefulness and alertness, rather than inviting and promoting relaxation and sleep.

Average light exposure during scheduled wakefulness was similar for the BL, 9 - h, and 5 - h conditions (230 ± 122, 247 ± 101, and 229 ± 102 lx, respectively; P = 0.47 for condition; note 1 lx equals light from a candle 1 m away from the eye).

Van Dongen, HPA et al. «The cumulative cost of additional wakefulness: dose - response effects on neurobehavioral functions and sleep physiology from chronic sleep restriction and total sleep deprivation.»

And so this kinda highlights the importance of maybe doing a morning cup of coffee and then considering some other source of wakefulness if you need it in the afternoon, like one of my favourite for that is L - theanine which you get from green tea and that doesn't cause those sleep disturbances that caffeine can cause, but know that based on this recent research if you're doing caffeine or you're having a big cup of coffee in the afternoon, that can stay with you for up to 6 hrs so really interesting and I thought that was kind of a cool little test just to see how long it took for caffeine to stay in your system and actually still disrupt sleep.

I want to believe we're built for soaring in our thoughts, and out here on the edge, in California, at night, in that fading wakefulness before sleep erases sight, my mind projects that sketch of Leonardo's, and then, before I realize it, I'm flying in, flying to America, making landfall on this continent, not from over the Pacific, not from Singapore or Australia, Fiji or Hawaii on routes I've flown in real airplanes, but I dream I'm coming in across the other ocean, over the Atlantic, like Columbus.

Some are comatose, some in a state of unresponsive wakefulness (previously called vegetative), others are minimally conscious, and yet others are people suffering from locked - in syndrome (those who are conscious but completely paralyzed, and are sometimes able to move only their eyes).

In an LA Times review of For Your Pleasure, CB1 Gallery's August 2010 group exhibition, David Pagel wrote that «Zamani's meaty paintings come from the no - man's - land between sleep and wakefulness, when consciousness is not fully functional and every little detail is more mysterious than usual.

Using gradually increased volume and light colors that induce wakefulness, I awake relaxed, not the usual startle from traditional alarms.