Not exact matches
This is especially true of small children, who have
much shorter
wakefulness windows than their parents.
Newborns spend
much of their time alternating between sleep and short bursts of
wakefulness.
What is paradoxical is that the average firing activity of individual nerve cells does not differ that
much in deep sleep and quiet
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.
Also completely relied on caffeine for
wakefulness especially mid-afternoon where no matter how
much coffee I drank or I slept the night before, I would crash sometimes dangerously so whilst driving.