Sentences with phrase «sleep the brain becomes»

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You can't teach a baby to walk before his little muscles are developed enough; you can't teach him to talk before his oral structures and the brain wiring that enables this are present and he won't be able to truly «self soothe» no matter how long you leave him to cry himself to sleep, until he has developed the brain structures and cognitive skills that enable emotional regulation — in other words, the ability to calm himself when he becomes upset.

During active (REM) sleep, their brains become very active as dreaming occurs.

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

If areas of the brain start to disconnect or become fragmented and balkanized, as occurs in deep sleep or in anesthesia, consciousness fades and might cease altogether.

The connections between neurons get weaker, not stronger, when we sleep — and that keeps brain cells from becoming overtaxed by waking events

In a report on the research published online on May 19, 2016 in Cell, the scientists say they found a group of brain cells in charge of so - called sleep drive that becomes more active the longer flies are kept awake.

«I'm inclined to think that happens because the brain begins to transition into sleep, and some local brain regions become drowsy even if you force yourself to stay awake,» Lewis says.

During sleep, a newly discovered network of water channels in the brain, called the glymphatic system, becomes active and functions as a waste disposal system, carrying toxins away which would otherwise accumulate and damage brain cells.

The researchers also observed that the interstitial spaces between brain cells became much larger during sleep, allowing fluid to flow more freely.

This technique could save the brains of some people who suffer «wake - up» strokes, where symptoms become apparent after they wake from a night's sleep, said lead researcher Dr. Gotz Thomalla, a neurologist with the University Medical Center in Hamburg, Germany.

Instead of turning lights on and adjusting temperatures, it adjusts energy, it adjusts brain power, it adjusts sleep and focus, it adjusts respiration and hormones, all of these systems start to become dampen.

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Therefore, when lack of sleep occurs, and your brain is unable to properly respond to insulin (which drives glucose into brain cells) your brain becomes desperate for carbohydrates to keep going.

For others they may become forgetful, or they can't think of the word they're looking for, or they get «brain fog», or mind chatter, or they become irritable or depressed, or it might affect their ability to sleep.

It becomes poison, causing you to grow belly fat, deplete your happy brain chemicals like serotonin, and rob you of sleep.

Narcolepsy is, I recently realized, a little like being a two year old in terms of sleep needs; every few hours, my brain needs to shut down and recover, or I become sleepy, grumpy, and can't think clearly.

When writing in the evenings, my brain would become very active and so getting to sleep became a real problem!

I taught high school for a few years, got married, had children, and life became one non-stop loop of no - sleep - keep - the - boys - from - starting - the - apocalypse - I - don't - know - how - to - brain - anymore.