Sentences with phrase «less slow wave sleep»
In contrast, a higher percentage of energy from saturated fat predicted less slow wave sleep.
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Many of us get about an hour to an hour and a half less sleep per night than we need... Naps of 90 to 120 minutes usually comprise all stages, including REM and deep slow - wave sleep, which helps to clear your mind, improve memory recall, and recoup lost sleep....
In a study of isolated rats, they exhibited less slow - wave sleep.
People's brains produce less slow - wave sleep after age 40, according to György Buzsáki of Rutgers University.
The changes in sleep architecture we observed are in an optimal direction, that is, more rich, slow wave sleep and less light or Stage 1 sleep, is a shift in the positive direction.»
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.
In keeping with earlier studies, the older adults performed less well than the younger ones on the memory test, and showed significant reductions in the slow brain waves associated with deep sleep.
They also spend less time in continuous slow - wave sleep, the deepest phase, from which it is hardest to be aroused.
Studies suggest that men experience less deep, slow waves of sleep than women do and that they generally function worse than women when sleep - deprived.
Older people tend to get less slow - wave sleep as they age, and fighting this natural decline — through healthy sleep habits, for instance — could be an «extraordinarily important strategy» for heading off hypertension, adds Van Cauter, who wasn't involved in the new research.
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.
When the researchers looked at the brain patterns of the sleep groups, they found that the interrupted sleepers showed significantly less «slow - wave sleep» than the other two groups of sleepers that had slept continuously.