Sentences with phrase «sleeping brain activity»

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«Because brain cells release amyloid beta during activity, we think if the brain cells can't rest the way they're supposed to and get that deep sleep, they produce a relative excess of amyloid,» Dr. Yo - El Ju of Washington University, an author of that study, told Reuters.

Studies have shown that the prefrontal cortex of the brain, the backbone of your willpower, is most active when you wake up — meaning that creative activity is highest during and immediately after sleep.

The research release explains that «sleep spindles,» a particular kind of brain activity that occurs in sleep, may help us tag and then recall important information.

When the brain - activities change in one way, consciousness changes in another; when the currents pour through the occipital lobes, consciousness sees things; when through the lower frontal region, consciousness says things to itself; when they stop, she goes to sleep, etc..

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And sleep studies that record brain activity show that people experience multiple arousals during the night — about 10 - 20 per hour (Bonnet and Arand 2007).

In one experiment, babies who were living with angry, squabbling parents showed heightened activity in parts of the brain that process stress, even during sleep.

Your baby's pulse increases, his or her muscles twitch and brain activity increases during this stage of sleep.

Some scientists believe brain development occurs during REM sleep, mainly because of the brain activity.

We all pass through sleep cycles during the night — we switch from REM to non-REM and the change in our brain activity wakes us up a little bit.

What we know from research is that there's lots of activity going on inside your baby's growing brain when she's in the early stages of sleep.

A 2012 study showed that pink noise made a measurable difference in the quality in sleep, both in how participants felt afterwards and as measured by brain activity monitors).

Sleep disturbed by night terrors means that there is irregular brain activity going on — most of the brain is «asleep,» but the small part that controls movement, voice, and expression actually remains awake.

When researchers looked at their brain activity during these times, they saw that one hemisphere of the brain had electrical patterns resembling nighttime sleep, whereas patterns from the other hemisphere indicated wakefulness.

Charles Walcott, a neurobiologist at Cornell University, says he's «always a little suspicious» of electrical brain activity studies, because it can be difficult to tease out what's sleep and what isn't.

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

During REM sleep, the brain generates high - frequency waves of electrical activity and the eyes flicker; in humans, REM is closely linked to dreaming.

Adult neural stem cells in the hypothalamus — a brain region that regulates hunger, sleep, body temperature and other activities — appear to orchestrate the body's aging process, they found.

Harvard neurobiologist J. Allan Hobson used recordings of brain activity from sleeping people to gleefully trash psychoanalytic dream theory, and by implication, the central Freudian ideas of censorship and repression.

Sleep was assessed in the children during one night with in - home electroencephalography (EEG)-- a method used to record electrical activity in the brain and makes it possible to identify different sleep stages — whilst parents reported their own insomnia symptoms and their children's sleep probSleep was assessed in the children during one night with in - home electroencephalography (EEG)-- a method used to record electrical activity in the brain and makes it possible to identify different sleep stages — whilst parents reported their own insomnia symptoms and their children's sleep probsleep stages — whilst parents reported their own insomnia symptoms and their children's sleep probsleep problems.

New sleep aids block the activity of brain peptides called orexins, which play a role in addiction

The hypothalamus, shown in red, is a region in the brain that regulates hunger, sleep, body temperature and other activities.

After only getting half of a night's worth of sleep, the children showed more slow - wave activity towards the back regions of the brain — the parieto - occipital areas.

As they slept, researchers recorded their electrical brain - wave activity using scalp electroencephalography (EEG).

The team also measured how this deep sleep activity correlated with the myelin content of the brain — a cornerstone of brain development.

To discover why some people can sleep through noise while others awake at the faintest disruption, Jeffrey Ellenbogen and colleagues at Harvard Medical School used electrodes to monitor the brain activity of 12 people while they slept in a pitch - black, soundproof room.

In the late 1990s Goadsby and his colleagues linked cluster headaches to heightened synaptic activity falling in or near the hypothalamus, a brain region that mediates hunger, thirst, sleep, sex drive and more.

Objectively, however, this improvement was not verified in any EEG - derived measures of sleep or oscillatory brain activity.

This involved measuring brain activity, tracking eye movements and monitoring the chin muscles, which are paralysed during REM sleep.

They stimulated a cluster of key brain cells, boosted the production of a protein linked to sleep or gave the flies a drug that mimicked the activity of an important chemical messenger.

The study, published in Nature Communications, found that activity in dendrites increases when we sleep, and that this increase is linked to specific brain waves that are seen to be key to how we form memories.

The data show that around the full moon, brain activity related to deep sleep dropped by 30 percent.

Sleep spindles are half - second to two - second bursts of brain activity, measured in the 10 - 16 Hertz range on an EEG.

Lack of sleep affects appetite, too: A 2012 Swedish brain - scan study identified heightened activity in the right anterior cingulate cortex — a brain region associated with hunger control — in the sleep - deprived.

Then, working at a sleep lab, she hooked up her subjects to electrodes that measured EEG activity all over the brain — including the temporal lobes — and recorded everything that happened while they slept.

«We were fascinated to observe how sleep deprivation dampened brain cell activity,» said lead author Dr. Yuval Nir of Tel - Aviv University.

The easiest way to determine if someone has temporal lobe epilepsy is to monitor the brain waves during sleep, when there is an increased likelihood of activity indicative of epilepsy.

When sleep - deprived and waiting in suspenseful anticipation for a neutral or disturbing image to appear, activity in the emotional brain centers of all the participants soared, especially in the amygdala and the insular cortex.

While previous research has indicated that sleep disruption and psychiatric disorders often occur together, this latest study is the first to causally demonstrate that sleep loss triggers excessive anticipatory brain activity associated with anxiety, researchers said.

Slow - wave sleep is also the time when neurons rest and the brain clears away the molecular byproducts of mental activity that accumulate during the day, when the brain is busily thinking and working.

Slow oscillations in brain activity, which occur during so - called slow - wave sleep, are critical for retaining memories.

They exposed sleeping volunteers to noise that incorporated repeated sounds and then tracked their brain activity using electroencephalography.

The participants were asked to recall some of the word pairs ten minutes later, then left to sleep overnight while the researchers recorded the electrical activity of their brains.

The switch works by regulating the activity of a handful of sleep - promoting nerve cells, or neurons, in the brain.

Using electroencephalograms (EEG) that measure brain activity, they recorded how deep and how long each participant's nightly sleep was in a controlled, laboratory setting.

Slumber is known to improve recall in creatures from fruit flies to humans, and the reigning theory among neuroscientists has been that the waves of brain activity during deep sleep reactivate neurons that were triggered during the day, strengthening neuronal connections and cementing them into solid memories.

This demonstrates an easy and noninvasive way to influence human brain activity to improve sleep and enhance memory.

In a study of 92 primary / elementary school aged children, Mr Coussens measured more than 30 different sleep parameters, such as muscle movements, breathing, eye activity and changes in the brain's processing.

We even did gene - expression studies in flies showing that genes in their brains change their level of activity in waking and in sleep.