Sentences with phrase «produce slow waves»

Therefore, the TRN is almost certainly a site of action of many anesthetic drugs, given that a large classes of them act at these synapses and produce slow waves as one of their characteristic features.»

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People's brains produce less slow - wave sleep after age 40, according to György Buzsáki of Rutgers University.

The results showed that cavitation bubbles actually produce two types of calcium responses: slow waves and fast waves.

Neutron stars usually spin very rapidly, so the asymmetric distribution of mass would deform space - time and produce a continuous gravitational - wave signal in the shape of a sine wave, which would radiate energy and slow down the star's spin.

For instance, the computer model produced both the «shock waves» of congestion that travel backwards down motorways and create traffic jams where there is no obvious obstruction («When shock waves hit traffic», New Scientist, 25 June 1994), and the «slow fast - lane» effect, in which so many drivers move into the overtaking lane in frustration at the middle lane's lower speed that the middle lane becomes the fastest - moving.

Once a person enters stage 3 sleep, the brain begins to produce the slow and deep waves of delta sleep.

Numerous sleep researchers noticed the similarity of the K - complex to other brain waves, namely those that the brain produces during its most restful periods — slow wave sleep.

It travels to the pituitary gland in regular cycles and stimulates it to produce HGH, as well as promoting slow - wave sleep, the level of sleep in which the pituitary releases the highest amounts of HGH.

Producing rotary motion to drive a turbine from the slow motion of the waves.