Sentences with phrase «periods of alertness»

They found that the concentration of adenosine rises steadily during periods of alertness, when the brain uses the most energy, and drops during naps or deep sleep.

There's no right amount of alert time, but a general trend toward longer periods of alertness is a sign that your baby's developing normally.

After this first period of alertness, however, they enter a drowsy state that lasts for about 24 hours.

And, this period of alertness with a lot of loud crying often occurs around 10 p.m. Babies tend to stick with the pattern they had in the womb: almost all babies in the womb are more awake and active during the late evening and night.

Not exact matches

Although you can access gamma brain waves during periods of extremely high functioning, it's the beta waves that scientists associate with everyday alertness, critical thinking, socialization, learning and cognitive processing.

Just as he himself oscillated between periods of vitality and tiredness, alertness and sleep, and lived out his life between birth and death, so the life of the earth itself was subject to a cosmic ebb and flow.

Starved of possession for long periods, he came into his own toward the end of normal time, testing Hugo Lloris's alertness with an audacious overhead kick and he was at the heart of a series of dangerous Portugal attacks in extra time.

According to some authorities the majority of infants do not immediately begin to suckle if placed between the mother's breasts but rather enter a period of rest and quiet alertness.

The DHS researchers on the TechSolutions programme and in the Human Factors / Behavior Science Division hope to record the brain's natural activity during periods of calm or alertness.

My energy levels increased, I was able to focus for much longer periods of time, and my memory and mental alertness increased tenfold.

«A strict crystal meth diet also helps people shed unwanted pounds, hair and teeth and promotes the growth of healthy scabs and unclean fingernails,» continued the report which assessed the health of 1000 meth addicts and concluded that they had the rugged lean health of a 19th century street urchin with taut, tense muscles from constant alertness coupled with an immunity to most infections from living in their own filth for long periods at a time.

Electroencephalography data, recorded for three - minute periods before, during, and after the aromatherapy sessions, showed that frontal beta 2 power, associated with drowsiness, increased after sessions in both groups, while frontal alpha power, associated with relaxation and drowsiness, increased significantly after the lavender sessions, but decreased after the rosemary sessions, which provided some physiologic support for the subjective reports of reduced anxiety in both groups and the reported increased alertness in the rosemary group.

Moreover, massage therapy resulted also capable of modifying the distribution of sleep / awake states, favoring longer periods of active alertness and reducing excitability (Scafidi et al., 1986, 1990; Field et al., 1987, 2004; Wheeden et al., 1993; Dieter et al., 2003).