Sentences with phrase «slow wave sleep as»

This is due to having the same type of rapid eye movement and slow wave sleep as humans.

A 5 - h sleep opportunity was chosen because: (i) on average it does not reduce deep slow wave sleep as does more severe sleep restriction, (ii) it is a level of sleep restriction that occurs across a 5 - d work week in many occupations (e.g., military and security operations, emergency responders, and shift workers), and (iii) it is a level of sleep restriction that is consistent with that used to examine the influence of sleep loss on metabolism (18, 19, 21, 42).

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The spike in the use of sleeping pills has caused some alarm, with critics warning that these pills — sometimes known as benzos — actually cut down on critical REM sleep and slow - wave sleep during which we consolidate information, and pose a risk of dependence.

While these brain rhythms, occurring hundreds of times a night, move in perfect lockstep in young adults, findings published in the journal Neuron show that, in old age, slow waves during non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep fail to make timely contact with speedy electrical bursts known as «spindles.»

At the University of Lübeck in Germany, neuroscientist Jan Born studies the deepest stage of sleep, known as the slow - wave stage because of its characteristic electrical rhythm.

Shown are brain waves during slow - wave sleep, measured as a study participant slept.

The next morning, the participants who had been beeped out of slow - wave sleep reported feeling tired and unrefreshed, even though they had slept just as long as usual and rarely recalled being awakened during the night.

As participants slept, right hemisphere regions showed consistent slow - wave activity regardless of the night.

Walker says the team now plans to examine the effects of disruption of certain types of sleep, such as REM sleep or slow - wave sleep.

The evidence, thus far, points to an origin of REM and slow - wave sleep at least as far back as the common ancestor of reptiles, birds and mammals, which lived about 320 million years ago,» explains Laurent.

The brain generates two distinct types of sleep — slow - wave sleep (SWS), known as deep sleep, and rapid eye movement (REM), also called dreaming sleep.

The amount of time spent in each sleep phase — stage 1, stage 2, slow wave sleep (or SWS — stage 3 and 4 combined) and REM sleep — was determined and expressed in minutes and as a percentage of total sleep time.

Older people tend to get less slow - wave sleep as they age, and fighting this natural decline — through healthy sleep habits, for instance — could be an «extraordinarily important strategy» for heading off hypertension, adds Van Cauter, who wasn't involved in the new research.

Healthy young and middle - aged adults spend about 20 % to 25 % of their sleeping hours in the stages known as slow - wave sleep (so called because of the brain waves associated with it).

Another published in 2011 found that healthy men 65 and older with normal blood pressure were nearly twice as likely to develop hypertension during the study if they spent less time in the deepest sleep stage (known as slow - wave sleep) compared with those who spent the most time deeply asleep.

(Slow - wave sleep, also known as deep sleep, is normally associated with feeling rested and rejuvenated.)

If you are working out on a regular basis you will have a better time entering a sleep of deeper quality and will spend more time in that deep sleep phase (also known as slow - wave sleep or SWS).

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.

• Stage 4 → Also known as «slow wave sleep».

Humans and dogs share the same SWS (slow wave sleep) as well as REM (rapid eye movement) while asleep.

For example, in 1977 it was reported that electrical activity in the brains of pointer dogs showed the dogs went through cycles of REM and slow - wave or non-REM sleep just as we do.

The dogs studied spent almost twice as much time in slow - wave sleep as in REM sleep.