Does variation in
sleep during brain development influence adult brain organization?
Not exact matches
Another possibility, according to the AAP, is that babies who die of SIDS have an anomaly in the
brain stem or a lag in
development which causes them not to rouse in the event of «life - threatening challenges
during sleep.»
Some scientists believe
brain development occurs
during REM
sleep, mainly because of the
brain activity.
Your doctor is incorrect about
brain development (from what I've read)... but doc is correct in that she will start waking up when it's time to go when she gets thru whatever growth cycles she's processing
during sleep.
No differences in
brain development or physical
development have been found in infants of women with
sleep apnea
during pregnancy.
Their work could lead to the
development of new tools to help Tononi untangle what happens in the
brain during sleep and dreaming, while Van Veen hopes to apply the study's new methods to understand how the
brain uses networks to encode short - term memory.
Finally, Niels Rattenborg from the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen hopes that «this naturally occurring variation in REM
sleep during a period of
brain development can be used to reveal exactly what REM
sleep does for the developing
brain in baby owls, as well as humans.»