Sentences with phrase «slower waves known»

Eventually, the brain begins to slow down and slower waves known as alpha waves can be observed with an EEG.

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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.

The government's slow pace in filling vacancies on the Immigration and Refugee Board has led it to declare that it will no longer be meeting legislated timelines in the face of a wave of irregular asylum seekers crossing the Canada-U.S. border.

I still believe, as I put it in chapter two, that «software», not «hardware» — the long, slow waves of cultural change, not the more obvious technological and economic changes that figure so prominently in public debate and academic social science — hold the key to the British predicament; that our ills form an interdependent system or, in medical language, a «syndrome»; and that they reflect the bewilderment and disorientation of a people who have forgotten the history that shaped them, and who therefore no longer know who they are.

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.»

Furthermore, those anticipating a test also experienced more slow - wave sleep, known to be linked to memory consolidation.

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.

Sleepwalking is caused by a partial arousal from slow - wave or deep sleep, however it is not know which functional brain mechanisms are affected by this pathophysiology.

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.

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).

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

«On a night following sleep deprivation, we'll have significantly more slow - wave sleep to compensate for the loss,» study author Jordan Gaines... said... «We also know that we lose slow - wave sleep most rapidly during early adolescence.

This classic pranayama practice, known for its soft, soothing sound similar to breaking ocean waves, can further enhance the relaxation response of slow breathing, says Patricia Gerbarg, MD, assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at New York Medical College and co-author of The Healing Power of the Breath.

The trendy no - rinse cleansers that hail from France have been riding a serious wave of popularity over the last couple years that shows no signs of slowing down.

Meteorologists know that steeper waves are slower to shift westward.