Sentences with phrase «with rapid eye movement»

«One theory is that there's some crossover with rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, also known as dream sleep,» says Neil Kline, DO, a sleep disorder physician in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and a representative of the American Sleep Association.

Around half of their sleep time between 16 and 20 hours is limited to REM sleep which is characterized with rapid eye movement.

Not exact matches

Many studies have linked motivation levels with REM sleep (which stands for rapid eye movement and is the part of sleep when you dream).

Each sleep cycle is a sequence of sleep stages, beginning with relatively brief, light stages of sleep, progressing through stages of deep sleep, and ending with REM (rapid - eye movement) sleep, the sleep state associated with dreams.

And REM sleep (so - called because of the rapid eye movements of this stage) is associated with dreaming.

Each is associated with particular brain activity, and it's during the rapid eye movement (REM) stage that most dreaming occurs.

When people are woken from deep sleep, they typically recall experiencing nothing or, at best, only some vague bodily feeling; this experience contrasts with the highly emotional narratives our brains weave during rapid - eye - movement (REM) sleep.

Inhibiting the same area of the brain with similar techniques increased the amount of time mice slept, especially non-REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, although sleep was not instant upon drug administration, as has been shown for other parts of the arousal system, Pedersen says.

Scalp electrodes worn at night by nine villagers during nine nights revealed biological signs of relatively light sleep compared with Westerners, including shorter periods of slow - wave and rapid eye movement sleep.

Answering this question requires classifying neuronal activity patterns recorded from the brain, based on a number of statistical, dynamical and anatomical features and correlating them with observable behaviours, such as the presence or absence of rapid eye movements.

In their report, Laurent and his colleagues describe the existence of REM and slow - wave sleep in the Australian dragon, with many common features with mammalian sleep: a phase characterized by low frequency / high amplitude average brain activity and rare and bursty neuronal firing (slow - wave sleep); another characterized by awake - like brain activity and rapid eye movements.

«The electrical brain activity during rapid eye movements in sleep were highly similar to those occurring when people were presented with new images,» said Dr. Nir.

The eyes are attuned to rapid movement — useful for keeping up with a speedy queen during her mating flight — and geometrical patterns.

The rapid eye movements we make when we shift our attention from one object to another, known as saccades, are essential to navigating, understanding, and interacting with the world around us.

Assessment of neuroinflammation in patients with idiopathic rapid - eye - movement sleep behaviour disorder: a case - control study, The Lancet Neurology (2017).

Typically suppressing rapid eye movement and increasing slow wave sleep, with the magnitude of these changes being directly related to blood alcohol levels [Yules RB, 1966].

One study conducted in 2014 concluded that smokers with Graves» disease were more likely to experience rapid eye deterioration, including the development of double vision, the constriction of eye movement, and irreversible optic nerve damage.

It is based on the discovery that rapid movements of the eye while recalling certain events can reduce anxiety associated with trauma.