Sentence examples for promotes sleepiness from inspiring English sources

Dr. Walker said he suspected that one factor that plays a role is a substance called adenosine, a metabolic byproduct that disrupts neural function and promotes sleepiness as it accumulates in the brain.

In a 2007 review of neurological research on sleep deprivation, published in Cellular and Molecular Life Science, Dutch neuroscientist T.W. Boonstra and his colleagues report that sleep deprivation boosts levels of a substance in the brain called adenosine, which makes brain cells less likely to fire, promotes sleepiness, and suppresses arousal.

"We wake up, but then our clock still promotes sleepiness, and we don't feel well," explains Dijk, whose research group first described this unfortunate paradox.

Overnight operations pose a challenge because our circadian biology promotes sleepiness and dissipates wakefulness at night.

The body needs energy to meditate, but food eaten recently also promotes sleepiness or distraction.

Before bed, do activities that will promote sleepiness, such as a taking a warm bath or reading a book or magazine.

It may also promote sleepiness if the chest is not open.

Do Mindful Meditation looks at the different posture types you may try, however sitting is really the best type as walking poses too many other distractions and lying down might promote sleepiness.

Newer compounds, such as modafinil (non-amphetamine wake-promoting compound for excessive daytime sleepiness) and sodium oxybate (short-acting sedative for fragmented nighttime sleep, cataplexy, excessive daytime sleepiness), are increasingly used.

This is because evening exercise blocks the production of the sleep-promoting hormone, melatonin, delaying our sleepiness that come "too early" when we are jetlagged traveling west.

The subscales of the GSDS address problems such as difficulty falling asleep, mid-sleep awakening, early awakening, sleep quality, sleep quantity, daytime sleepiness, and use of medication to promote sleep.