REM sleep boosts immunity, regulates emotions and develops the brain — but are you getting enough?
"Deep sleep builds your immune system, and REM sleep regulates and fine-tunes it," says Darwall-Smith agrees. During deep ...
Doctor explains difference between REM sleep and deep sleep — plus how to get more of each this World Sleep Day
However, some research shows that major stressors may increase REM sleep but reduce deep sleep. REM rebound, which is when we ...
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Your Sleep Quality Matters. Here's How to Know if You’re Getting Enough
The best known is REM, which stands for rapid eye movement because your eyes move rapidly during this stage of sleep. Scientists and researchers generally divide the cycles into two broad ...
A little-understood sleep disorder affects millions and has clear links to dementia – 4 questions answered
A little-known and poorly understood sleep disorder that occurs during the rapid eye movement, or REM, stage of sleep has ...
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The surprising ways your body works overtime at night
Your body burns calories while you sleep through vital processes like repair and regulation. Learn how to boost your ...
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Understanding Dreams
What is known, however, is that dreams appear primarily in the Rapid Eye Movement (REM) stage of sleep and are typically accompanied by high levels of brain activity and some physical movement ...
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WATCH: R.E.M. stages surprise reunion at Athens’ 40 Watt Club
The unexpected performance brought all four original members: Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Bill Berry, and Mike Mills together on stage for a rare appearance. The reunion took place during a concert ...
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Peripheral vasoconstriction during REM sleep detected by a new plethysmographic method
Rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep is associated with more sympathetic activation than is NONREM sleep 1,2. So far, there are no data regarding vascular tone during REM and NONREM sleep in humans.
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Sleep Disruptions and Impaired Muscle Control in Ataxia May Share a Culprit
In mice, a normal sleep cycle contains three stages the animal alternates through: wakefulness, rapid eye movement (REM), and non-REM (NREM). 6 Ataxic mice experienced longer periods of each stage, ...