Sentences with phrase «more 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.

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Punctuating REM are interludes of slow - wave sleep, a state in which brain activity ebbs and the waves become more synchronized.

After only getting half of a night's worth of sleep, the children showed more slow - wave activity towards the back regions of the brain — the parieto - occipital areas.

Furthermore, those anticipating a test also experienced more slow - wave sleep, known to be linked to memory consolidation.

A month or more later, the process was repeated, except that those who had their sleep disrupted the first time were allowed to sleep through the night undisturbed, and those who had slept uninterrupted the first time were disturbed by beeps when they began to enter slow - wave sleep.

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.»

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.

First, immune - activated mice spent more time in slow - wave sleep, a sleep phase often associated with systemic inflammation.

«If you sleep more than 20 minutes, you have slow - wave sleep, which is harder to wake up out of.

Deep, slow - wave sleep is when more than half of the day's HGH is released.

If you are working out on a regular basis you will have a better time entering a sleep of deeper quality and will spend more time in that deep sleep phase (also known as slow - wave sleep or SWS).

«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.

Researchers found that greater fiber intake predicted more time spent in the stage of deep, slow wave sleep.

A 5 - h sleep opportunity was chosen because: (i) on average it does not reduce deep slow wave sleep as does more severe sleep restriction, (ii) it is a level of sleep restriction that occurs across a 5 - d work week in many occupations (e.g., military and security operations, emergency responders, and shift workers), and (iii) it is a level of sleep restriction that is consistent with that used to examine the influence of sleep loss on metabolism (18, 19, 21, 42).

Drinking alcohol before bed is linked with more slow - wave sleep patterns called delta activity.