Alzheimer’s risk rises when amount of deep sleep falls, study suggests
Not getting enough of deeper stages of sleep raises the risk of brain deterioration associated with Alzheimer’s disease, a ...
How to get more REM sleep, according to a sleep specialist
When you’re in a period of REM sleep, your eyes will rapidly move from side to side and that’s where the name REM (short for ...
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How to get more REM sleep — the internal 'therapy' that happens when you're unconscious
While you are sleeping your body cycles through two phases of sleep—rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and non-REM sleep. During REM sleep, you dream, your heart rate increases, and you even process ...
This Is What REM Sleep Is And How To Know If You’re Getting Enough
On their website, The Sleep Foundation states: “REM is involved in a host of important functions, from brain development to ...
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While We Sleep, Our Mind Goes on an Amazing Journey
we’re also regulating our mood and consolidating our memories. Rapid eye movement, or REM, sleep was discovered in 1953—more than 15 years after stages 1 through 4 had been mapped—by Eugene ...
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Significant REM Sleep Differences Seen in Patients With MDD and Insomnia
Researchers sought to better understand the connection between REM sleep patterns in patients with either insomnia or MDD.
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Sleep Deficiency Linked to Atrophy of the Inferior Parietal Region of the Brain
Associations seen between less short wave sleep and rapid eye movement sleep with smaller inferior parietal region volumes.
Sleep-deprived European jackdaws trade vigilance for deep sleep
As most people who have pulled an all-nighter will agree, lost sleep can leave us feeling foggy and far from our best. In ...