Sentences with word «wakefulness»

On Saturday night of the time switch, set your clocks ahead in the early part of the night — so you lose an hour of wakefulness instead of sleep — and go to bed at your normal time according to those clocks, not the television schedule or the time on your cell phone.

These fast, low - voltage brain waves resemble the ones that occur during wakefulness.

The average wakefulness window for most toddlers is around 4 hours.

Our bodies associated blue light with daytime, according to Harvard Medical School, which triggers a response of wakefulness in the body.

«The brain has limited options for promoting wakefulness when it is truly sleep - deprived, and eating is one.»

She usually needs to be startled into wakefulness several times before she moans and grudgingly rises to go to band practice.

It could also lead to more nighttime wakefulness as your baby stays hungry throughout the night.

Though it might seem hard to establish your sleep / wake routine, if you focus on increasing wakefulness by small increments (think 5 minute increases every other day), you will get in your groove.

When you accept this process, suggests Miller, you're better able to let periods of nighttime wakefulness arise and fall away without resistance.

Many of your remedies seem to apply, as they do «help» — they diminish symptoms and frequency of episodes, but I have yet to find a daily fix and have to take 2 different pharmaceutical drugs (one non-anphetamine speed for wakefulness during the day and an anti-depressant at night to curtail cataplectic episodes.

Patients in a state of unresponsive wakefulness had 38 % as much metabolic activity as the controls, minimally conscious patients showed 58 % as much activity, and people being roused back to consciousness (either from sleep or anesthesia), had 63 % of the normal metabolic activity.

Average windows of wakefulness by age:

The goal is to finally achieve a «hypnagogic state» — the state between wakefulness and sleep.

• Metabolic disorders affecting the transition from wakefulness to sleep stage.

Keep the temperature cool but not cold overnight, while the cooling body feels sleepy, a rising temperature causes wakefulness.

The PET scan data could correctly distinguish between minimal consciousness and severe unresponsive wakefulness with 89 % accuracy, the team reports today in Current Biology.

As usual, our girl Jodi Mindell sums it up perfectly in her 2009 study: «Instituting a consistent nightly bedtime routine, in and of itself, is beneficial in improving multiple aspects of infant and toddler sleep, especially wakefulness after sleep onset and sleep continuity, as well as maternal mood.»

Since the late 1990s, scientists have known narcoleptics lack neurons that produce neuropeptides called hypocretins, which regulate wakefulness.

We want to go to battle when we realize we're awake, but it's perfectly normal to have periods of wakefulness at night.»

Creating a routine that encourages wakefulness during the daytime and during feeds will ultimately help you establish consolidated feeds, regular naps and consistent night sleep.

In mice, activating this region using targeted chemical genetic techniques resulted in prolonged wakefulness during the animals» normal sleep periods.

For me, I feel a zen, balanced sense of wakefulness when I drink 1 - 2 cups of my matcha latte.

Two to 3 months is not too young to begin the process of helping infants develop longer periods of sleep in a pattern of more wakefulness during the day and sleep at night.

Adults need seven to nine hours of sleep per night, according to the National Sleep Foundation, but a CDC survey found that some 50 to 70 million U.S. adults suffer chronic sleep and wakefulness disorders.

After examining the data, Vanini and team found that extended wakefulness prior to surgery significantly enhanced postoperative pain behaviors and extended recovery time after surgery.

The anxiety of not being able to sleep is thus gradually relieved as you learn to accept quiet wakefulness as an acceptable alternative when you are in bed.

The researchers also found that activating these brain cells while the mice were awake had no effect on wakefulness, but did make them eat more.

The goal is to reduce crying time, reduce night wakefulness, and extend the amount of time you have to go back and check on your baby.

Move slowly and softly through wakefulness, as the message is sleep - time.

Sunlight signals the production of melatonin in the human body, a hormone that helps to regulate daytime wakefulness and nighttime sleep.

Birth to ten weeks: Newborns are able to sustain no more than two hours of wakefulness before needing to go to sleep again.

He continued to act as if wakefulness, if not accompanied by eating, was highly overrated.

Saper and his colleagues have been studying the brain's suprachiasmatic nucleus, or SCN, which resets our daily circadian clock, and the genes that control wakefulness.

Witness, for example, our treatment of those said to be in a «persistent vegetative state» (PVS, defined in 1972 as a condition of «wakefulness without awareness»).

I don't think I even reach full wakefulness (so count sleep - peeing as one of my superpowers).

The first is NREM1 between drowsy wakefulness and sleep, in which your muscles are still quite active, you're rolling around in bed and you may occasionally open your eyes.

«There is increasing evidence that the foetus never experiences a state of true wakefulness in utero and is kept, by the presence of its chemical environment, in a continuous sleep - like unconsciousness or sedation.»

As your baby grows, however, he or she will have more control over wakefulness and an ever - more - piercing cry.

Hypocretin neurons have the ability to incite energetic wakefulness, and to prevent a person from falling asleep, should his body detect a «starved» state.

If your baby is exhibiting wakefulness and restlessness even when you are drinking below 300 mg of coffee a day, take yourself off caffeine for a week or so.

Watching wakefulness windows, looking for signs of tiredness, and remaining consistent with your baby's routine will help to ensure that he is getting enough quality naptime sleep.

Whilst older children can handle the odd late night, young babies are not able to cope with too much wakefulness between naps or at bedtime - and can not communicate these feelings so they cry inconsolably.

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.

Bazil suggests avoiding bright lights, including phones and computers to avoid wakefulness.

Gadgets which can do so are widely available and can help you identify the kinds of things which may be triggering wakefulness.

Protein facilitates wakefulness, he says, while carbohydrates promote sleep.