Sentences with phrase «with slow wave sleep»

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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.

Decrease of slow - wave sleep in children with prolonged absence of essential lipids intake.

Short naps skimp on slow - wave sleep (SWS), a sleep stage associated with reduced stress hormone levels.

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.»

While slow wave sleep was greater in those with a TBI they also had less non-REM stage 1 sleep, a form of very light sleep seen during the wake - to - sleep transition.

Sleep apnea disrupts slow - wave sleep, so people with the disorder often wake up feeling unrefreshed, even after a full eight hours of shut -Sleep apnea disrupts slow - wave sleep, so people with the disorder often wake up feeling unrefreshed, even after a full eight hours of shut -sleep, so people with the disorder often wake up feeling unrefreshed, even after a full eight hours of shut - eye.

In keeping with earlier studies, the older adults performed less well than the younger ones on the memory test, and showed significant reductions in the slow brain waves associated with deep sleep.

Persistent alterations in slow - wave sleep may represent a biomarker that could help differentiate immune - related neuropsychiatric conditions from those with other causes.

First, immune - activated mice spent more time in slow - wave sleep, a sleep phase often associated with systemic inflammation.

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.

Another common feature with mammalian sleep was the coordinated activity of cortex with another area during slow - wave sleep: in dragons this other area is the so - called dorsal ventricular ridge.

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.

During slow - wave sleep, groups of neurons firing at the same time generate brain waves with triple rhythms: slow oscillations, spindles, and ripples.

It is called slow - wave sleep and it seems to be involved with memory formation, rather than dreaming.

«During sleep, maybe specific brain regions have slow waves at the same time because they need to exchange information with each other, whereas other ones don't,» says Laura Lewis, a research affiliate in MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and one of the lead authors of the new study, which appears in the journal eLife.

These brain waves are thought to emerge from the thalamus and are generally associated with slow - wave sleep (during stages three and four of the stages of sleep.)

«Until now, slow wave sleep has been a lot easier to break than fix, and we can't reliably stimulate it with drugs.»

There is also a distinction between sleep states: REM (dreaming) sleep is associated with theta; slow - wave sleep is associated with LIA.

Importantly, this benefit of sleep on emotional attention regulation is specifically associated with slow wave activity.

Dr. Jessica Payne will discuss selective emotional memory consolidation in middle aged adults demonstrating that, in this understudied age - group, slow wave sleep during a daytime nap supports emotional memory consolidation although this process weakens with age.

«It is associated with increased levels of slow - wave (deep) sleep.»

«It is associated with increased levels of slow - wave deep 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.

Next you fall in to deep sleep with slower brain waves.

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].

Nearly half of the day's secretion of HGH occurs during deep, slow - wave sleep with the biggest burst coming between 11:30 pm and midnight.

The significant drop in the slow - wave sleep was associated with the striking drop in positive moods, having implications for how everything from stress to depression can affect both sleep and mood.

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

Slow - wave sleep is a sleep stage associated with reduced levels of cortisol (a stress hormone) and reduced inflammation.

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).

Drinking alcohol before bed is linked with more slow - wave sleep patterns called delta activity.

Dogs also experience a sleep cycle just like humans, beginning with slow wave light sleep and ending with REM sleep.

The team predicted that the flying frigatebirds would exhibit unihemispheric slow wave sleep (USWS), a phenomenon in which animals sleep with only one hemisphere of the brain at a time, allowing them to keep one eye open to watch out for potential threats.